calibre97
June 13th, 2008, 01:31 AM
(that should read grub> in the subject line of course. If it really was "grup" then I'd be in serious trouble)
I have an HP dv5035nr with XP MCE SP2, Kubuntu 8.04 and System Commander 9. XP is on the only primary partition, with everything else in an extended partition (data partition, TrueImage securezone, Kubuntu partition, swap partition).
Everything was working fine (famous last words!) with System Commander loading first, then when I chose Kubuntu, grub would load and I could get to Kubuntu. Because TrueImage was constantly hanging and taking forever, I decided to remove it and load Norton Ghost. I deleted the securezone and turned it into a normal NTFS partition.
When I boot, I still get System Commander first. When I select Windows, all is fine, as it loads. When I select Kubuntu, I see a brief flash of grub trying to load, then it halts with a note and a grub prompt. I loaded the Kubuntu Live CD and everything's there as it should be. Partitions are still the same, with Kubuntu on /dev/hda7. My menu.lst has the various kernel options at (hd0,7) which is the same as it was.
When I loaded gpartd, I saw that the Windows partition was flagged as hidden and the extended partition and Kubuntu partitions were both flagged boot. I removed the hidden flag on the Windows partition as it was visible before, and I removed the boot flag on the extended partition.
I've also tried booting from a SuperGrub disk, which did load my menu.lst file and displayed everything as expected, but each kernel item (there are three due to updates) resulted in a "cannot mount partition" error.
Is there something I can type at the grub> prompt, or should I try different numbers in menu.lst (such as moving it up to 8 or down to 6)? I sort of know what I'm doing and I've tried everything I can think of (short of the aforementioned renumbering, of course, which I'll try since I can live CD boot and see files) and I just can't get the partition to boot.
I have an HP dv5035nr with XP MCE SP2, Kubuntu 8.04 and System Commander 9. XP is on the only primary partition, with everything else in an extended partition (data partition, TrueImage securezone, Kubuntu partition, swap partition).
Everything was working fine (famous last words!) with System Commander loading first, then when I chose Kubuntu, grub would load and I could get to Kubuntu. Because TrueImage was constantly hanging and taking forever, I decided to remove it and load Norton Ghost. I deleted the securezone and turned it into a normal NTFS partition.
When I boot, I still get System Commander first. When I select Windows, all is fine, as it loads. When I select Kubuntu, I see a brief flash of grub trying to load, then it halts with a note and a grub prompt. I loaded the Kubuntu Live CD and everything's there as it should be. Partitions are still the same, with Kubuntu on /dev/hda7. My menu.lst has the various kernel options at (hd0,7) which is the same as it was.
When I loaded gpartd, I saw that the Windows partition was flagged as hidden and the extended partition and Kubuntu partitions were both flagged boot. I removed the hidden flag on the Windows partition as it was visible before, and I removed the boot flag on the extended partition.
I've also tried booting from a SuperGrub disk, which did load my menu.lst file and displayed everything as expected, but each kernel item (there are three due to updates) resulted in a "cannot mount partition" error.
Is there something I can type at the grub> prompt, or should I try different numbers in menu.lst (such as moving it up to 8 or down to 6)? I sort of know what I'm doing and I've tried everything I can think of (short of the aforementioned renumbering, of course, which I'll try since I can live CD boot and see files) and I just can't get the partition to boot.