On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 18:19 -0800, Evan White wrote: > I'm running a Windows XP / FC3 dual-boot system on a > Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop and it was running fine. > Here's the partitions from fdisk: > > device start end Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 1 4462 35840983 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda2 4463 8287 30724312 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/sda3 8288 8300 104422 93 Amoeba > /dev/sda4 8301 12161 31013482 8e Linux LVM > /dev/sda5 4463 8287 30724281 b W95 FAT32 > > Inside the LVM, there is a 2 GB Swap and the rest is > /. > > I noticed that the Linux parition showed up in Windows > as F: and was concerned that Windows would somehow > corrupt the partition if it was mounted, so I looked > for ways to hide that partition from Windows. I ended > up changing my grub.conf file to include this line in > the Windows section: hide (hd0,2) > > In hindsight, perhaps it should have been (hd0,3). > > Anyways, upon reboot into Windows, I could tell that > Windows did something before I logging me in. It went > to that light blue screen that it uses for scandisk > for about 2 seconds, then it logged me in. The F: > drive was still visible, and when I rebooted, I got > the following error: > > GRUB Loading stage1.5 > > GRUB loading, please wait... > Error 17 > > > Well I've seen this before, so I booted to my FC3 disk > and typed "linux rescue" then "chroot /mnt/sysimage". > I checked my grub.conf, which reads: > > title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.770_FC3) > > > Then I ran "grub-install /dev/sda" and got this: > > The file /boot/grub/stage1 was not read correctly. > > I didn't know what that was all about, but after > looking around, I found people suggesting the > following: > > #>grub > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 > > To which I received: > > Error 15: File not found > > I am, however, about to browse to /boot/grub/ and I > can see the stage1 file. But for some reason grub > can't find it. Someone suggested using grub.img, but > I don't have a floppy drive. I do, however, have > network/internet access still enable thru FC3 rescue > mode. > > Questions: > > Firstly, is the hide command the best way to keep > Windows away from the Linux partition? What is the > best way? > > Secondly, how do I reinstall grub successfully? ---- my nephew - I told him that someone on this list would be able to help him work this problem through. The partition table looks odd to me what the heck is an 'amoeba' partition? /dev/sda3 ? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Also with an anaconda install, it is generally the 4th partition that generally would be an 'extended' partition upon which the 5th and subsequent partitions would be located. Thus one of my systems with lots of partitions looks like this... Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3649 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 14 666 5245222+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 667 1188 4192965 83 Linux /dev/hda4 1189 3649 19767982+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1189 1449 2096451 83 Linux /dev/hda6 1450 1580 1052226 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 1581 1711 1052226 83 Linux /dev/hda8 1712 3649 15566953+ 83 Linux note that the 4th partition is a type 'f' now on the only system that I have that is LVM...(and in reality, is 3 SATA drives in a Raid 5 array) Disk /dev/sda: 319.9 GB, 319930630144 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38896 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 8 64228+ de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 * 9 21 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 22 38896 312263437+ 8e Linux LVM so I suspect that something happened to the partition table that needs to be fixed and I don't know how to accomplish that - hopefully someone else can tell you a way to fix it. Craig
