From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Pu2C1-0000wL-5r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:27:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 347341C013; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:25:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.199]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ECB81C013 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:25:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (ool-43505ef2.dyn.optonline.net [67.80.94.242]) by mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0LHB00L6LUIK34K0@mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:25:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:25:21 -0500 From: dhk Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions In-reply-to: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <4D6B9431.5090702@optonline.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 References: <4D6A6756.9050603@optonline.net> <4D6A922A.70505@binarywings.net> <201102271940.01393.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4D6B867F.9040502@optonline.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110105 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.7 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 34809d26abde3140748a15cc2b41506f On 02/28/2011 06:39 AM, Mick wrote: > On 28 February 2011 11:26, dhk wrote: > >> Thanks for all the input. It helped clear up a lot of questions. I >> spent the weekend installing to Operating Systems and it looks like it >> almost worked. I think the problem is in the Grub setup, so it should >> be repairable once I find the mistake. If it's something else, I may be >> doing this again next weekend. >> >> Thanks again, >> >> dhk > > What error does it give you? > > PS. Are you chainloading Gentoo from the MSWindows boot manager, or > MSWindows from GRUB? I did everything in Grub and haven't touched the MS Windows partitions since the initial install. The problem looks like Grub and some other stuff. Can't boot to Windows or Linux. It looks like the Grub menu never comes up. However, it seems to know about it, because the menu options can still gets executed either after the time out or by pressing Enter. Then some stuff gets printed to the screen and the boot process begins, but it errors before the Operating Systems come up. When trying to boot to Windows, I have no idea why it errors. When trying to boot to Linux, the fsck.ext3 fails on /dev/sda7 which is my root partition. It seems to think it's ext2, but when I checked (by booting to the livecd) with tune2fs -j it says it's already journaling. After the boot fails and I give the root password, I looked in /dev and there aren't any sda partitions and I have 12 on the disk. My disk looks like the following. Filesystem ~Size Mounted /dev/sda1 128M MS Windows 7 boot partition - HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 50G MS Windows 7 - HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 512M /boot - ext2 /dev/sda4 extended partition /dev/sda5 512M swap /dev/sda6 5G FAT32 /dev/sda7 12G / - ext3 /dev/sda8 50G LVM2 - ext3 /dev/sda9 50G LVM2 - ext3 /dev/sda10 50G LVM2 - ext3 /dev/sda11 50G LVM2 - ext3 /dev/sda12 50G LVM2 - ext3 /dev/mapper/vg-usr 8G /usr /dev/mapper/vg-home 5G /home /dev/mapper/vg-opt 3G /opt /dev/mapper/vg-var 2G /var /dev/mapper/vg-tmp 1G /tmp Thanks dhk