zephod@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I reported this problem some time ago but I still cannot boot my FC6 > disk. I have been poking around the GRUB source and I now have a > better understanding of what GRUB does but I don't understand this > problem. > > I have 2 disks, one is a SATA disk that has Windows XP on it. The > other disk is an IDE that has my FC6 on it. When I try to boot to the > FC6 disk, the machine just reboots over and over again. I then boot > from the rescue disk and look at the partitions using fdisk. > Everything looks normal. The Windows stuff is on /dev/sda and the FC6 > stuff is on /dev/hdk. /boot/grub/device.map contains: > > (hd0) /dev/sda > (hd1) /dev/hdk > > If I enter GRUB in interactive mode and do > > # geometry (hd0,0) > > I get the output I expect but when I do > > # geometry (hd1,0) > > GRUB tells me that there is no such disk. The reason GRUB won't boot > is that is fails the root (hd1,0) command in the grub.conf file. > > I even re-installed GRUB > > # grub-install /dev/hdk > > with no problems but when I go back inro GRUB it still tells me there > is no hd1. > > Can anyone give me somewhere else to look for clues? If GRUB looks at > device.map to figure that hd1 means /dev/hdk and grub-install is OK > installing on /dev/hdk, why doesn't GRUB recognize the 2nd disk? > > Steve > Dumb question - does your BIOS know about the IDE drive? If not, then chances are you will not be able to boot from it. You may have to make space for the /boot directory on the SATA drive. If your BIOS does know about the IDE drive, running "grub-install --remap" may help. You may also want to try running "geometry (hd2,0)" and "geometry (hd3,0)" just in case the BIOS is skipping numbers when mapping drives. With the drive being /dev/hdk, it sounds like the drive is on a controller card, and not off the motherboard... Is this the case? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
