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Bugreport grub-0.5.96
From: |
U.Birkemeyer |
Subject: |
Bugreport grub-0.5.96 |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Oct 2000 16:13:19 +0200 |
Installation problem with grub-0.5.96: Error 29: Disk write error
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Hallo GRUB developers,
first of all, thanks and big hands for this great tool you developed.
I have a problem with the installation of grub-0.5.96 (error 29: disk write
error).
The situation prior to the attempt to install grub-0.5.96:
I have a working installation of grub-0.5.95 on my ACER Travelmate 730TX
notebook.
I built grub-0.5.95 and installed stage1 into the MBR of (hd0) and have
stage2 and the menu.lst on one of my Linux partitions (hd0,7). Everything is
fine with grub-0.5.95.
The partition map (as reported by Linux fdisk) on my 20 GB harddisk is:
Harddisk /dev/hda: 255 Heads, 63 Sectors, 2432 Cylinders
Units: Cylinder with 16065 * 512 Bytes
Device Boot Begin End Blocks ID Filesystemtype
/dev/hda1 * 1 254 2040223+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 255 484 1847475 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 485 700 1735020 a5 BSD/386
/dev/hda4 701 2432 13912290 f Win95 Extend. (LBA)
/dev/hda5 701 960 2088418+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 961 1024 514048+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda7 1025 1280 2056288+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 1281 1542 2104483+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 1543 1797 2048256 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 1798 2052 2048256 b Win95 FAT32
After installation of grub-0.5.95 I installed W2k on (hd1) = /dev/hda2. This
did not overwrite the MBR (to my surprise) and the booting of W2k with the
command chainloader +1 is working without problems. Everything works fine with
grub-0.5.95.
After I noticed your new version grub-0.5.96 I tried to install this the same
way as grub-0.5.95 but on commit of the command "install" (see end of
my menu.lst file) from the grub shell the Error 29: "Disk write error" is
reported. Since all the access rights of the grub-0.5.96 files are equal to the
grub-0.5.95 files and since I have no problems in repeating the grub-0.5.95
installation, I suspect an error in grub-0.5.96.
Maybe this report can help you to improve the grub software. Thanks for your
great software tool.
Best regards
Uwe Birkemeyer (address@hidden)
Here is the contents of my menu.lst file:
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# General commands
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Boot automatically after 30 secs.
timeout 30
# By default, boot the first entry.
default 0
# Fallback to the 3rd entry.
fallback 4
# Set colors normal highlight
color light-gray/blue black/cyan
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# **0** (hd0,0) = /dev/hda1 (hda5 - appl) (hda6 - home)
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
title Windows 98 SE
unhide (hd0,0)
hide (hd0,1)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# **1** (hd0,1) = /dev/hda2
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
title Windows 2000 Prof
unhide (hd0,1)
hide (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
makeactive
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# **2** (hd0,2) = /dev/hda3
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
title FreeBSD 4.1
root (hd0,2,a)
kernel /boot/loader
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# **3** (hd0,6) = /dev/hda7
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
title Linux 2.2.14 SuSE 6.4
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# **4** (hd0,7) = /dev/hda8
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
title Linux 2.2.16 SuSE 7.0
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# **5** (hd0,8) = /dev/hda9
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
title Linux 2.2.14 RedHat 6.2
root (hd0,8)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# **x** (hd0,7) = /dev/hda8 My installation command (from grub shell)
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
#title Install GRUB into the hard disk
#root (hd0,7)
#install (hd0,7)/usr/share/grub/boot/stage1 (hd0)
(hd0,7)/usr/share/grub/boot/stage2 (hd0,7)/usr/share/grub/boot/menu.lst
- Bugreport grub-0.5.96,
U.Birkemeyer <=