Re: [gentoo-user] Whats wrong with my grub.conf

[Ian K <omega_2_1@yahoo.ca>]

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Hey guys,
I was poking around, and saw that my boot simlink was wiped.
I thought that was the answer. But I now boot and get an
error 16. grrrr.....
Ian

Ian K wrote:

>Heinz Sporn wrote:
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>>Hi!
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>>Whenever someone has Grub problems it'd be a good idea to not only post
>>grub.conf but more importantly infos about the disk layouts (and fstab
>>to round it up).
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>OK, well I have a dual boot with Windows happening here as you
>probably can tell. Its all on the one hard drive.
>
>Partition 1 (grub 0)(hda1) = Windows XP (NTFS)
>Partition 2 (grub 1)(hda2) = Gentoo /boot (reiserfs)
>Partition 3 (grub 2)(hda3) = Linux Swap
>Partition 4 (grub 3)(hda4) = Gentoo / (Including /home) (reiserfs)
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>>In your case there seems to be a couple of things to verify.
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>>I assume that Grub didn't come up with its initial dialog? 
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>Yup, it showed nothing.
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>>That usually
>>means that it couldn't find /boot/grub/grub.conf using it's stage
>>drivers in /boot/grub.
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>Alright, so would I just 'install' it again? This is not an initial
>install of grub, how could it lose its configuration file?
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>>With root (hd0,1) you force Grub to load an OS from the second partition
>>of your first physical disk. Does /dev/hda4 reflect this situation?
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>>So in short: you have to tell Grub where to find /boot/grub/grub.conf
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>Well, as long as you can tell me how Im OK.
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>>But for detailed forensics I'd need more intel.
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>>Regards
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>>spox
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>Thanks very much!!
>Ian
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>>Am Samstag, den 06.08.2005, 01:32 -0400 schrieb Ian K:
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>>>Hi there,
>>>I am getting an "Error 15"
>>>when grub loads. I booted in with a Gentoo Live CD
>>>and got the file, and am including it. I think the
>>>error 15 code is a syntax error, right? Here is
>>>the file. Let me know if you see a problem.
>>>Ian
>>>PS> Please note I like to make things look good,
>>>explaining the ..::..'s
>>>
>>>---------grub.conf---------
>>>default 2
>>>timeout 10
>>>splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>title=.....::::: GentooLinux2.6.11-gentoo-r11
>>>:::::.....
>>>root (hd0,1)
>>>kernel /linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r11 root=/dev/hda4
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>title=.....:::::Gentoo
>>>Linux2.6.11-gen-r11-IR2:::::.....
>>>root (hd0,1)
>>>kernel /linux-2.6.11-r11-IR2 root=/dev/hda4 
>>>
>>>
>>>title=.....:::::Gentoo
>>>Linux2.6.11-gen-r11-IR3:::::.....
>>>root (hd0,1)
>>>kernel /linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r11-IR3 root=/dev/hda4
>>>
>>>
>>>title=.....:::::Gentoo Linux
>>>2.6.13-rc1-mm1-R2:::::.....
>>>root (hd0,1)
>>>kernel /K2.6.13-rc1-mm1-R2 root=/dev/hda4
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>title=.....:::::          Windows XP         
>>>:::::.....
>>>rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>>>makeactive
>>>chainloader +1
>>>
>>>
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