Re: Unable to dual boot using LILO nor GRUB with Win98

[Jan Carlson <janc kubwa com>]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:50:38PM -0600, Mike Watson wrote:
> I now have GRUB working too.  I entered:
> grub-install --recheck /dev/hda
> 
> So, the faulty BIOS entry for /dev/hdb was the culprit.  

That's a new one on me.  If dual booting fails, we should
check the power plug and enable the drives in the bios.  
Doh!

> 
> Thanks to all who've helped me on this.  Once upon a time, many years ago, I was
> a Solaris sysadmin.  I don't do that anymore, but I like to maintain my knowledge
> of things Unix and Linux.
> 
> Mike W
> 
> Mike Watson wrote:
> > 
> > I haven't had a chance to check since I got LILO fixed.  But...since GRUB uses
> > BIOS for drive detection, I suspect my screwed up BIOS enty for /dev/hdb may be
> > the reason GRUB couldn't find the stage files on the /boot filesystem.
> > 
> > I'll check this in a bit and answer your question if I can.
> > 
> > Mike W
> > 
> > Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > >
> > > On 2001-12-31, Mike Watson wrote:
> > >
> > > >I tried running GRUB as you indicated below and got an error 1 indicating it
> > > >couldn't find one of the stage files.
> > >
> > > Care to quote the entire GRUB output of both commands?
> > >
> > > >> As a last resort, try this one in GRUB shell:
> > > >>
> > > >> grub> root (hd1,0)
> > > >> grub> install (hd1,0)/grub/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0)1+22 p
> > > >>   (hd1,0)/grub/stage2 (hd1,0)/grub/grub.conf
> > >
> > > (hd0) = /dev/hda = MBR
> > > (hd1) = /dev/hdb
> > > (hd1,0) = /dev/hdb1
> > >
> > > Your /dev/hdb1 is mounted as /boot, so on it the /grub directory
> > > should exist including the stage* files. What does GRUB not find?
> > >
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Jan Carlson                                 janc at kubwa dot com