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.
>  / Solaris
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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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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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