Paul Smith: >>> Disk /dev/sdc: 120.0 GB, 120033041920 bytes >>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders >>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes >>> >>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >>> /dev/sdc1 * 1 3187 25597952 6 FAT16 >>> /dev/sdc2 3188 3200 104422+ 83 Linux >>> /dev/sdc3 3201 14593 91514272+ 8e Linux LVM >> I am trying the following, but getting a failure: >> >> grub> root (hd2,1) >> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Telling GRUB that GRUB's root is /dev/sdc2 (third hard drive, second partition). This would usually be your /boot partition, which'd have a grub directory in it. >> grub> setup (hd2,1) >> Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes >> Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes >> Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes >> Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd2,1)"... failed (this is not fatal) >> Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd2,1)"... failed (this is not fatal) >> Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd2,1) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst "... succeeded >> Done. The above all looks quite typical (that it worked, and you should be able to boot your system, if your system is set to start booting from that partition - either by BIOS or another bootloader chainloading to this one). However, /dev/sdc has three partitions, the first one being marked as active, and being FAT16. If your BIOS was going to try and boot from that drive, I'd expect it to try booting the FAT16 partition, and never seeing the subsequent Linux ones. You'd have to be chainloading this boot record from something else. >> grub> setup (hd2,2) Now you're trying to tell GRUB that GRUB's root (where your kernel and GRUB's files usually both are), are in your LVM partition: /dev/sdc3 (third drive, third partition). This is wrong. I don't know why you did that extra step. I don't think I've seen you describe why you have three discs, and how you intend to use them all together. Which drive is the BIOS set to boot up, and does that location use a boot menu to pick something else to boot? If so, how's it configured? e.g. The system boots from the first partition on the first drive, there's a GRUB menu there to boot from that drive, chainload a GRUB on the second drive, or chainload a GRUB on the third drive, etc... (and show us the grub.conf or grub/menu.lst files. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
