badfish69
September 17th, 2008, 02:03 AM
Grub is drivin me insane. I can run Ubuntu from the live disk, I can mount the volume I installed ubuntu on. Grub refuses to do anything for me.
I installed ubuntu on hdb, gave it the entire volume, and set it before hda in boot order. hda runs vista.
When loading Grub, I get 3 ubuntu options, and 2 vista options. When I try to load vista, one option gives me "Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition." The other one goes to a black screen that says "starting up" and never goes anywhere. I can boot vista by making hda boot before hdb.
So after mounting hdb in ubuntu live, I open the terminal. Then I try this
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5948c2dd
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1282 10297633+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 1283 38914 302272535 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c70d9
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 38542 309588583+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 38543 38913 2980057+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 38543 38913 2980026 82 Linux swap / Solaris
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ grub
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For
the first word, TAB lists possible command
completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> root (hd1,0)
root (hd1,0)
Error 21: Selected disk does not exist
grub> root (hd1,1)
root (hd1,1)
Error 21: Selected disk does not exist
grub> root (hd1,3
root (hd1,3
Error 11: Unrecognized device string
grub> root (hd1,3)
root (hd1,3)
Error 21: Selected disk does not exist
grub>
so i try to find grub stage1
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ find /boot/grub/stage1
find: /boot/grub: No such file or directory
however, I'm able to navigate right to it through the ubuntu gui.
any ideas?
I installed ubuntu on hdb, gave it the entire volume, and set it before hda in boot order. hda runs vista.
When loading Grub, I get 3 ubuntu options, and 2 vista options. When I try to load vista, one option gives me "Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition." The other one goes to a black screen that says "starting up" and never goes anywhere. I can boot vista by making hda boot before hdb.
So after mounting hdb in ubuntu live, I open the terminal. Then I try this
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5948c2dd
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1282 10297633+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 1283 38914 302272535 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c70d9
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 38542 309588583+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 38543 38913 2980057+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 38543 38913 2980026 82 Linux swap / Solaris
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ grub
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For
the first word, TAB lists possible command
completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> root (hd1,0)
root (hd1,0)
Error 21: Selected disk does not exist
grub> root (hd1,1)
root (hd1,1)
Error 21: Selected disk does not exist
grub> root (hd1,3
root (hd1,3
Error 11: Unrecognized device string
grub> root (hd1,3)
root (hd1,3)
Error 21: Selected disk does not exist
grub>
so i try to find grub stage1
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ find /boot/grub/stage1
find: /boot/grub: No such file or directory
however, I'm able to navigate right to it through the ubuntu gui.
any ideas?