On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 04:43 +0200, dpeck wrote: > > > > Dan wrote: > > It's far more likely that you're trying to boot the wrong partition. FC5 > > uses ext3 by default, and GRUB has no problem with that filesystem. The > > boot line in your grub.conf suggest it's trying to boot from the first > > partition on the second hard drive. While in the grub prompt, type: > > geometry (hd1) > > to check if this is actually an ext3 partition (or even the right hard > > drive). Check (hd0) and see if you can recognize which is which. If hd0 > > is the one you actually want to boot from, then try booting using > > (hd0,0) instead. > > good luck, > > -Dan > > > well i did that; according to grub the second hard drive appears as HD0. but FC5 is installed on hd1 not hd0. > it shows two partitions on the second hard drive. > 1 ext3 > 2. unknown 0x7 > > Partition Magic shows this for hard drive #2: > 1. ext3 > 2. Type 8E An 8e partition is Linux LVM. You can use the lvm tools to make it accessible. You probably only need to use vgs to identify the volume group name then use vgchange to make it active. > > > > Anyway...i reinstalled FC4, then used FC5 like an upgrade. > I can boot FC5 but only manually...at least it will boot now but when i want to boot the other OS i have to change boot priority. > i have a copy of SuSe on the way though...maybe the Suse install can correct this? > > > -- > This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org > http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=77248&topic_id=18843&forum=26#forumpost77248 >
