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)




More information about the fedora-list mailing list