Dual Boot Problem
Jessie Veltman
sassnak at gmail.com
Wed Jun 15 02:26:40 UTC 2005
On 6/14/05, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
>
> >I just tried "grub-install /dev/hda", but no luck. It gave me the
> >error "/dev/hdb1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive". The only
> >thing I can think of is that this is somehow related to the fact that
> >I have a SATA drive on my system. I'm a crazy geek who has 4 hard
> >drives running, 3 IDE and 1 SATA. Both Windows and Fedora are on IDE
> >drives though, so I'm not sure whats going on.
> >
> >
> >
> This sounds related to what Barry mentioned about the device.map
> cat /boot/grub/device.map
> puts out this information on my single disk laptop. What does the
> device.map file contain on your system.
> cat /boot/grub/device.map
> # this device map was generated by anaconda
> (fd0) /dev/fd0
> (hd0) /dev/hda
>
> What does fdisk -l output?
> fdisk -l
> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 2111 16956576 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 2112 2124 104422+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 2125 3399 10241437+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda4 3400 4864 11767612+ 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 3400 4674 10241406 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 4675 4805 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/hda7 4806 4864 473886 b W95 FAT32
>
> I'm sure that with 3 IDE disks and the SATA, it should confuse anaconda
> a bit. Grub.conf would also give clues as to what failed to recognize
> the setup you have.
>
> Jim
>
> --
> Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right. :-)
> -- Larry Wall in <199710211959.MAA18990 at wall.org>
>
Ok I looked at both device.map and fdisk -l.
For device.map I came up with:
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda
(hd1) /dev/hdb
(hd2) /dev/hdg
and for fdisk -l I came up with:
Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System
/dev/hda1 * 1 14946 120053713+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb1 * 1 13 1049391 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 14 14946 119949322+ 8e Linux
/dev/hdg1 * 1 19457 156288321 c w95 Fat32 (LBA)
/dev/hdi1 * 1 9729 78148161 c w95 Fat32 (LBA)
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