Grub clarification
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Tue Dec 4 12:41:08 UTC 2007
Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Karl Larsen
>> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 1:14 PM
>> To: For users of Fedora
>> Subject: Re: Grub clarification
>>
>>
>> Gordon Messmer wrote:
>>
>>> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Taking the defaults w/o any changes, I proceed and completed
>>>> the installation.
>>>>
>>>> On reboot, GRUB fails to find the drive.
>>>>
>>> Before you rebooted, you should have been able to switch to
>>>
>> a shell to
>>
>>> examine the installed system. If you can mount that drive, you
>>> should. Otherwise, get to the shell to check the contents of
>>> /boot/grub/device.map. What's in there?
>>>
>>> What's the full text of grub's error?
>>>
>>>
>> I would like to see both grub.conf and /etc/fstab and just be sure
>> show us # fdisk /dev/sda. These will tell us what's wrong. You
>> can look
>> too :-)
>>
>>
>>
>
> grub.conf:
>
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Notice ... blah blah..
> # NOTICE ... blah blah..
> # blah blah..
> # root (hd0,0)
> # kernel /vmliniz-version ro root=/dev/sda2
> # initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/sda1
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> initrd /initrd--2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img
>
>
You have no way to boot your windows. That needs to be added to
grub.conf.
> /etc/fstab:
> LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> LABEL=swap-sda3 swap ext3 defaults 1 2
>
> fdisk -l /dev/sda:
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 15.3GB 15393079296 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1871 cylinders
> Units = Cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk Identifier: 0x0005b9df
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 10 80293+ 83 Linux
>
The above should not be Id 83. It should be proper for windows and
the System should be Windows.
> /dev/sda2 11 1742 1391229 83 Linux
> /dev/sda3 1743 1871 1036102+ 83 Linux swap
The above should be Id 82 for the swap.
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Above is what I see wrong. Looks like no swap defined and windows is
all messed up.
Karl
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