[gentoo-dev] grub

[gentoo-dev] grub

[Mike Acord]

I am getting a 'selected disk does not exist' error in grub. Everything in
the build from source worked fine until this point. I have a promise U66
controller, and on device 0,0 I have my linux harddrive. During the
install, it was recognized as hde. I tried grub with (hd3,0), and it did
not work. I have other harddrives in my system (hda, hdc), and when I
tried root (hd0,0) or root (hd2,0) I recived the same error, that the
selected disk does not exist.
does anyone know why grub is not recognizing my disks?
thanks!

Michael Acord
knowfear@knowfear.net

A man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original
dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

RE: [gentoo-dev] grub

[Sean Mitchell]

> I am getting a 'selected disk does not exist' error in grub. 
> Everything in
> the build from source worked fine until this point. I have a 
> promise U66
> controller, and on device 0,0 I have my linux harddrive. During the
> install, it was recognized as hde. I tried grub with (hd3,0), 
> and it did
> not work. I have other harddrives in my system (hda, hdc), and when I
> tried root (hd0,0) or root (hd2,0) I recived the same error, that the
> selected disk does not exist.
> does anyone know why grub is not recognizing my disks?
> thanks!

Not that this helps much, but I have had the same problem with my KT7 RAID
board which uses a HPT370 controller. I have

hda
  hda1 - NTFS (Windows 2000)
  hda2 - Reiserfs (Gentoo /)

hde
  hde1 - ext2 (Gentoo /boot)
  hde2 - FAT32 (just data)
  hde3 - extended
  hde5 - swap (Linux swap)

>From memory, when I tried a 

# root (hd1,0)

it was fine, but the

# setup (hd1)

gave an unrecognised partition or something like that. At any rate, I
installed LILO and everything is fine now. I've never been able to figure
out what advantages GRUB has anyway, so LILO is still my preferred boot
manager.

Cheers,

Sean

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Re: [gentoo-dev] grub

[Chad Huneycutt]

Mike Acord wrote:

> ...During the
> install, it was recognized as hde. I tried grub with (hd3,0), and it did
> not work.


   Ummm, should that be (hd4,0)?
  ( a b c d e )
    0 1 2 3 4
-- 
Chad Huneycutt
Ph.D. Student
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~chadh

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub

[Collins Richey]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:07:12 -0400 Sean Mitchell
<SMitchell@phoenix-interactive.com> wrote:

> 
> > I am getting a 'selected disk does not exist' error in grub. 
> > Everything in
> > the build from source worked fine until this point. I have a 
> > promise U66
> > controller, and on device 0,0 I have my linux harddrive. During
> the
> > install, it was recognized as hde. I tried grub with (hd3,0), 
> > and it did
> > not work. I have other harddrives in my system (hda, hdc), and
> when I
> > tried root (hd0,0) or root (hd2,0) I recived the same error, that
> the
> > selected disk does not exist.
> > does anyone know why grub is not recognizing my disks?
> > thanks!
> 
> Not that this helps much, but I have had the same problem with my
> KT7 RAID
> board which uses a HPT370 controller. I have
> 
> hda
>   hda1 - NTFS (Windows 2000)
>   hda2 - Reiserfs (Gentoo /)
> 
> hde
>   hde1 - ext2 (Gentoo /boot)
>   hde2 - FAT32 (just data)
>   hde3 - extended
>   hde5 - swap (Linux swap)
> 
> From memory, when I tried a 
> 
> # root (hd1,0)
> 
> it was fine, but the
> 
> # setup (hd1)
> 
> gave an unrecognised partition or something like that. At any rate,
> I
> installed LILO and everything is fine now. I've never been able to
> figure
> out what advantages GRUB has anyway, so LILO is still my preferred
> boot
> manager.
> 

The only advantage to grub is that you don't need to rerun grub (like
lilo) when you add a new bootable stanza to the list of bootable
systems.  Otherwise, it's a pain in the kiester.  You can't boot every
type of filesystem with grub, for example.

-- 
Collins Richey
Denver Area
gentoo_rc6 xfce+sylpheed

[gentoo-dev] grub

[Network Administrator]

Setup went smooth.
but after reboot I get a "Error 15" right after "Grub loading"
please help

Patrick Kelley

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub

[Jack Morgan]

Network Administrator wrote:
> 
> Setup went smooth.
> but after reboot I get a "Error 15" right after "Grub loading"
> please help

You probably have an error in your set up. Grub errors are
summarized here: http://www.mcc.ac.uk/grub/grub_13.html

Can you post your grub details or menu.lst

jack_morgan