Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: fresh install for dual boot with winxp : grub hangs
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 02:15 -0700, Hans Horn wrote:Dear all,
I'm trying to install fedora2 on a HP AMD64 box with winxp factory-
installed.
I've got two disks, with xp installed on the first one.
after the reboot following the fedora install on the 2nd disk, all I
get is: GRUB
using 'linux rescue' I tried to modify grub.conf with no success.
here's what fdisk tells me:
fdisk /dev/hda
/dev/hda hda1 hp-recovery
hda2 NTFS (XP boot)
fdisk /dev/hdd
/dev/hdd hdd1 swap
hda3 ext3 (Linux boot)
Did you mean hdd3? hdd2? What else is on hdd? Do you have /boot and / or is everything but swap on one partition.
hdd2 is an empty fat32 partition - dunno how it got to be. I don't have a /boot partition
device.map says:
hd0 /dev/hda
hd1 /dev/hdd
This seems to be a rather strange setup and may be confusing grub. Usually you would want your hard disk as the master on the controller rather than the slave, or better yet the only thing on the controller for performance reasons. What is on the slave for the first IDE
master: hda slave1: nothing master2: dvd/cd slave2: hdd
contoller and the master for the second? I'd try changing the hardware setup so the second disk is the master on the second controller, booting in rescue mode, and fixing /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf to match. The BIOS hard disk mode may also be a factor.
recommendations?
has anybody got a glue how grub.conf is supposed to look like for grub to work on my system.
Would help to first see what you've got now. Where did you install grub, the MBR or the boot partition?
the MBR!
right now I'm pretty much dead in the water - can't boot into any OS!
I suspect it is recoverable, but you need to clarify and provide correct current grub.conf and disk/partition information.
have to wait until I get home tonite! thx a lot!
Hans
Phil
