Help... Can't boot!

[Stuart Sears]

On 03/01/09 13:24, John Aldrich wrote:
> Quoting Stuart <stuart at sjsears.com>:
>>
>> At which point does it say that?
>> Do you get as far as the grub menu?
>>
>> Partition type 0x5 is an 'Extended' partition. (/dev/sda4 or
>> equivalent, usually) - this suggests to me that your grub.conf is
>> incorrect, probably containing a line similar to
>> root (hd0,3)
>>
>> But you can see this (I hope) by hitting 'e' at boot time, assuming you
>> get as far as the grub countdown/menu.
>>
> Grub.conf is as follows:
>
> root (hd1,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 ro
> root=UUID=1acff5c4-7a23-414a-9e04-f356c64e24bd rhgb quiet
>
> initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64.img
>
> device.map is as follows:
> (hd0) /dev/sda
> (hd1) /dev/sdb
>
> When it tries to boot, I get the following (it skips the grub menu --
> it's the only install there):
> root (hd1,0)
> fs type unknown, partition type 0x5.

okay, what I would do here is use the grub console to find /boot...

in case you don't know how:

hit 'c' to bring up the console

type root (hd <TAB>
grub should fill in the disks it can see (hopefully hd0/1/2)

for each of those, try
root (hdX,<TAB>

which should give you the partition layouts and types

then for each of the (hdX,0) partitions, try

kernel (hdX,0)/ <TAB>

one of them should have your vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 file on 
it. use that one in your "root (hdX,0)" statement.

hit <ESC> to get back to the menu and edit the 'root' statement 
accordingly. See if it works after that.

I think, from your previous post, that you may be pointing grub at what 
you think is sdc, which may only have
sdc1 - Extended
sdc5 - first logical partition

on it.


I had a similar issue with the installer seeing my disks in a different 
order to what I expected.


Regards,

Stuart
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