On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 13:14 -0500, jim lawrence wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 19:05:57 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am So, den 09.01.2005 schrieb jim lawrence um 18:57: > > > > > -- it says starting grub stage2... then the cursor sits under > > > neath that line > > > > So it does not find stage 2. > > > > > jim lawrence > > > > What is the content of your grub.conf? > > What does "fdisk -l" print out? > > > > Alexander > device boot start end blocks id system > ************************************************************* > dev.hda1 * 1 1275 7 ntfs > dev/hda2 1276 1288 83 linux This could be the problem. Some old BIOSs can't access beyond cylinder 1024. See http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html I'd create a ~102MB /boot as /dev/hda1. Should be able to change things around with parted or Partition Magic, or start fresh and repartition with fdisk or disk druid. > dev.hda3 1289 2498 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > dev/hda5 1289 1416 82 Linux Swap > dev/hda6 1417 2498 83 linux > > my question is where is the boot partition i created, and where id hda4 ? My guess is that the /boot partition is /dev/hda2. / is on hda6. You have no hda4 since you created 2 primary partitions and hda3 as the extended partition, as another poster has explained since I started this then had to pick up a kid. Could have gotten away with just 4 primary partitions for this setup. Is there only one disk? Later message in this thread shows kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=label=/1 rhgb quiet which would indicate another / (root) partition. > if i need to reinstall > i have a win98 boot floppy could i do > > fdisk /mbr If nothing else works, that - or XP recovery - should get your Windoze back. Phil
