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Not recognizing my grub.conf file
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Not recognizing my grub.conf file |
Date: |
13 Nov 2003 17:33:16 -0800 |
Hello,
I am having trouble loading grub onto my system and I am hoping you
might be able to help me straighten it out. I have grub installed and
setup but it doesn't seem to recognize my grub.conf file, which resides
in /boot. I also made a symbolic link to it in /boot/grub. Upon boot
it sits in the grub prompt. If I type in the commands from the
grub.conf file then it will boot. To get around that I am currently
using a boot diskette but I would like to figure how to make it work.
Here is a little background.
My system, an HP Pavilion ze5385 laptop, is a dual boot system. I
deliberately didn't install the boot loader when I installed Red Hat
Linux. Later, much later, I decided it was time to install the grub
bootloader. Looking through the info doc I found a section detailing how
to install and it went smoothly, up to a point. I copied the stage*
files into /boot/grub, /boot resides in it's own partition by the way.
I then made a diskette and booted into grub as suggested. This all
worked fine. Then I ran the suggested find /boot/grub/stage1 command to
be sure I pointed to the right place. It failed to find the stage1 file
so I quit the grub boot. Later, when I was ready to try again, I
noticed that it wouldn't boot any longer from the grub boot diskette,
but I discovered I could boot directly by typing grub in a shell, which
I did. I probably booted and quit several times before proceeding.
Finally I felt confident and actually did the setup. The commands I
issued were root (hdo,1); setup(hd0); quit.
I notice I get the following error messages when I type grub in the
shell.
grub
hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: packet command error: error=0x50
ATAPI device hdc:
Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
Invalid field in command packet -- (asc=0x24, ascq=0x00)
The failed "Start/Stop Unit" packet command was:
"1b 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
Error in command packet byte 4 bit 0
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
GRUB version 0.93 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the
possible
completions of a device/filename.]
grub> quit
Here is some output from fdisk
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 3810 30603793+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 * 3811 3813 24097+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 3824 7296 27896872+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 6905 7165 2096451 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 3824 5799 15872157 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 5800 6568 6176961 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 6569 6904 2698888+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 7166 7296 1052226 82 Linux swap
Partition table entries are not in disk order
This is for grub version 0.93-4
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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