On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 11:19, Stephen Black wrote: > System is AMD-Athlon 64 based. hda is 120GB and contains Windows XP on > partition hda1. hdb is 60GB and contain 64-bit version of Fedora Core 3. > /boot is on hdb1 (ext3) followed by a Logical Volume containing / > (reiserfs) and the swap partition. This was the default partitioning > performed by Fedora. Grub was installed to the MBR. > I'm slightly puzzled by the fact you state that this is the default partitioning performed by Fedora ... that doesn't look like a Fedora partitioning scheme to me. Perhaps I'm out-of-date here, but AFAIK, Fedora uses ext3 by default. > Now, when I boot, I get error 17 in Grub stage 1.5. From the Grub manual > this is : > > 17 : Cannot mount selected partition > > This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the > filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB. > > I have a floppy which boots to a Grub shell. Now if I type in the following > I can boot Fedora Core 3: > > root (hd1,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img > boot > > and away Fedora goes. No problem. > > Also, I can boot Windows XP from the Grub shell by the following: > > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > boot > > A few seconds later, I have Windows XP up and running. > > The contents of my grub.conf are as follows: > > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making chnages to this file > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that you > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > # root (hd1,0) > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > # initrd /initrd-version.img > #boot=/dev/hda > default=0 > timeout=5 > splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > hiddenmenu > title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667) > root (hd1,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb > quiet > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img > title Windows XP Professional SP2 > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 > > As far as I can see, these commands are the same as I typed into the Grub > shell, with the exception that > I also put a 'makeactive' command in when booting Windows from the Grub > shell. However, this does not make any > difference, so what is going on? > > I have read that /boot should be on the first hard disk. Is this correct? > Why then can I boot from the floppy? > I have also read that people have had problems with 64-bit. > > Hopefully some of you clever people can help here. > > Thanks > > Steve Black -- Tony Dietrich ------------- You buttered your bread, now lie in it.
