Am Do, den 01.07.2004 schrieb Hans Horn um 18:02:
All drives use 'auto' on everything in the bios.
Might be worth to try LBA explicitly.
After making all the changes you recommend and issuing 'grub-install /dev/hda', it tells me '/dev/hdd3 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive'.
Did I miss something?
I miss the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hdd" below.
here's what fdisk tells me now and the content of the few files that I have edited:
fdisk /dev/hda <p>
Disk /dev/hdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
Did you manually post it here? Just because in the line above it should be "Disk /dev/hda" and not "hdb".
150 heads, 63 sectors/track, 41346 cylinders
150 heads is a bit "uncommon" I feel.
Units = cylinders of 9450 * 512 = 4838400 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 991 4682553+ 1b Hidden W95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 * 991 41346 190680210+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
No good setup, the fist partition is extended and the second is the one with bootable flag, though the first is marked as hidden.
fdisk /dev/hdb <p>
Disk /dev/hdb: 46.1 GB, 46115758080 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 89355 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 85282 89346 2048287+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb2 1 50793 25599640+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hdb3 * 50793 85282 17382330+ 83 Linux
Here the third marked as bootable. hdb1 is physically at the end of the disk but has the first letter. Did such setups ever work for you?
/boot/grub/device.map:
(fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hdb (hd1) /dev/hda
/etc/fstab:
LABEL=LINUX / ext3 defaults 1 1
Did you change the LABEL entry by hand? Does the real label set on the partition fit with this fstab entry?
Alexander