I just installed fedora Core6 and now I can't boot up the system.
I have a dual boot system here; winXP on a drive by itself (hda) and fedora core6 on its own drive (hdb).
After things were installed with grub as my default boot manager I can't get into fedora 6 at all. A boot takes me right into windows with no stopping at the grub process.
To try and get this working I have tried doing a 'reinstall' of core6 but even though the process said it was installing grub all over again, it never appeared. And than I thought of using the rescue disk and trying to get things going that way. And that failed. But here is what I had done..
Fedora Core6 rescue disk - boot. ran chroot /mnt/sysimage Than I ran grub-install /dev/hda, and that gave me "/dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. So I ran grub-install again but used /dev/hdb with the same result . /dev/hdb is my core6 installation drive. I even ran grub-install /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hda1 all with the same result: "/dev/hdX does not have any corresponding BIOS drive."
That leaves me at a standstill with no way to get into my Fedora installation. Is there a way using the resuce disk to boot into core6? I don't know there is a way, but if there is that would be nice to know.
The bottom line is - what is wrong with the grub installation process that it won't write anything to anything to get the system to dual boot.??
--- Ted Gervais, Coldbrook, Nova Scotia, Canada
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:01:37 -0400 Ted Gervais ve1drg@av.eastlink.ca wrote:
After things were installed with grub as my default boot manager I can't get into fedora 6 at all. A boot takes me right into windows with no stopping at the grub process.
What is the boot order set to be in the BIOS. If it is set to boot from the second disk and grub is on the first that may explain the problem.
Which option did you select for the location of the grub boot loader during the install ?
What is the hardware - especially disk controller set up ?
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:01 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
I just installed fedora Core6 and now I can't boot up the system.
I have a dual boot system here; winXP on a drive by itself (hda) and fedora core6 on its own drive (hdb).
After things were installed with grub as my default boot manager I can't get into fedora 6 at all. A boot takes me right into windows with no stopping at the grub process.
To try and get this working I have tried doing a 'reinstall' of core6 but even though the process said it was installing grub all over again, it never appeared. And than I thought of using the rescue disk and trying to get things going that way. And that failed. But here is what I had done..
Fedora Core6 rescue disk - boot. ran chroot /mnt/sysimage Than I ran grub-install /dev/hda, and that gave me "/dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. So I ran grub-install again but used /dev/hdb with the same result . /dev/hdb is my core6 installation drive. I even ran grub-install /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hda1 all with the same result: "/dev/hdX does not have any corresponding BIOS drive."
What does you BIOS say about the drives?
That leaves me at a standstill with no way to get into my Fedora installation. Is there a way using the resuce disk to boot into core6? I don't know there is a way, but if there is that would be nice to know.
The bottom line is - what is wrong with the grub installation process that it won't write anything to anything to get the system to dual boot.??
Ted Gervais, Coldbrook, Nova Scotia, Canada
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At 04:22 PM 11/30/2006 -0600, you wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:01 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
I just installed fedora Core6 and now I can't boot up the system.
I have a dual boot system here; winXP on a drive by itself (hda) and
fedora
core6 on its own drive (hdb).
After things were installed with grub as my default boot manager I can't get into fedora 6 at all. A boot takes me right into windows with no stopping at the grub process.
To try and get this working I have tried doing a 'reinstall' of core6 but even though the process said it was installing grub all over again, it never appeared. And than I thought of using the rescue disk and trying to get things going that way. And that failed. But here is what I had done..
Fedora Core6 rescue disk - boot. ran chroot /mnt/sysimage Than I ran grub-install /dev/hda, and that gave me "/dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. So I ran grub-install again but used /dev/hdb with the same result . /dev/hdb is my core6 installation drive. I even ran grub-install /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hda1 all with the same result: "/dev/hdX does not have any corresponding BIOS drive."
What does you BIOS say about the drives?
All it says is that the particular drive on which grub is to be installed, that it does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. I don't know what else to say??
That leaves me at a standstill with no way to get into my Fedora installation. Is there a way using the resuce disk to boot into core6? I don't know there is a way, but if there is that would be nice to know.
The bottom line is - what is wrong with the grub installation process
that
it won't write anything to anything to get the system to dual boot.??
Ted Gervais, Coldbrook, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Ted Gervais wrote:
What does you BIOS say about the drives?
All it says is that the particular drive on which grub is to be installed, that it does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. I don't know what else to say??
I don't understand your answer. Isn't there a line in your BIOS setup giving the order in which it looks at disks, say "A,C,D"?
At 12:34 AM 12/1/2006 +0000, you wrote:
Ted Gervais wrote:
What does you BIOS say about the drives?
All it says is that the particular drive on which grub is to be installed, that it does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. I don't know what else to say??
I don't understand your answer. Isn't there a line in your BIOS setup giving the order in which it looks at disks, say "A,C,D"?
Sorry. I see what you mean. It goes to the Cdrom first, than a: and finally c:
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Ted Gervais wrote:
At 04:22 PM 11/30/2006 -0600, you wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:01 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
I just installed fedora Core6 and now I can't boot up the system.
I have a dual boot system here; winXP on a drive by itself (hda) and
fedora
core6 on its own drive (hdb).
What does you BIOS say about the drives?
All it says is that the particular drive on which grub is to be installed, that it does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. I don't know what else to say??
The device map is probably not correct so you might need to run grub-install --recheck followed by grub-install /dev/whatever once the rechecking the mapping is completed.
`--recheck' Recheck the device map, even if `/boot/grub/device.map' already exists. Jim
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:41 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
At 04:22 PM 11/30/2006 -0600, you wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:01 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
I just installed fedora Core6 and now I can't boot up the system.
I have a dual boot system here; winXP on a drive by itself (hda) and
fedora
core6 on its own drive (hdb).
After things were installed with grub as my default boot manager I can't get into fedora 6 at all. A boot takes me right into windows with no stopping at the grub process.
To try and get this working I have tried doing a 'reinstall' of core6 but even though the process said it was installing grub all over again, it never appeared. And than I thought of using the rescue disk and trying to get things going that way. And that failed. But here is what I had done..
Fedora Core6 rescue disk - boot. ran chroot /mnt/sysimage Than I ran grub-install /dev/hda, and that gave me "/dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. So I ran grub-install again but used /dev/hdb with the same result . /dev/hdb is my core6 installation drive. I even ran grub-install /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hda1 all with the same result: "/dev/hdX does not have any corresponding BIOS drive."
What does you BIOS say about the drives?
All it says is that the particular drive on which grub is to be installed, that it does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. I don't know what else to say??
You miss my question. When you go into the BIOS is the drive properly identified? -- ======================================================================= Some people have a great ambition: to build something that will last, at least until they've finished building it. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net
Sorry Aaron. I did miss your question. My bios is set up ok. It knows where to put stuff and it does a great job of it. This computer has installed FC1, 2, 3, 4, 5, just great. And recently the latest version of centos without any problems with where should go or with grub working or not. And since we were talking last I took fc6 off this computer and put on centos again and its grub went on just fine. So, after making some notes as to where it put grub, I am about to take centos off and to install (fresh) fc6 again. I bet it won't work..
I suspect something wrong with this first cdrom disk..???
At 08:15 AM 12/1/2006 -0600, you wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:41 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
At 04:22 PM 11/30/2006 -0600, you wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:01 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
I just installed fedora Core6 and now I can't boot up the system.
I have a dual boot system here; winXP on a drive by itself (hda) and
fedora
core6 on its own drive (hdb).
After things were installed with grub as my default boot manager I
can't
get into fedora 6 at all. A boot takes me right into windows with no stopping at the grub process.
To try and get this working I have tried doing a 'reinstall' of
core6 but
even though the process said it was installing grub all over again, it never appeared. And than I thought of using the rescue disk and trying to get
things going
that way. And that failed. But here is what I had done..
Fedora Core6 rescue disk - boot. ran chroot /mnt/sysimage Than I ran grub-install /dev/hda, and that gave me "/dev/hda does
not have
any corresponding BIOS drive. So I ran grub-install again but used /dev/hdb with the same result . /dev/hdb is my core6 installation drive. I even ran grub-install /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hda1 all with the same
result:
"/dev/hdX does not have any corresponding BIOS drive."
What does you BIOS say about the drives?
All it says is that the particular drive on which grub is to be installed, that it does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. I don't know what else to say??
You miss my question. When you go into the BIOS is the drive properly identified?
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