dear friends,
please read this mail avoid the one with the
attachment, as it is not readable.
I tried as Philip Charles advised
to download the grub image Copyleft site, as previously there was no
errors, but it did not boot. also root is located at (hd0,9) & NOT
(hd1,9).
Details:
Output of
fdisk
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# fdisk -l
Disk
/dev/hdb: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870
cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device
Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 609 4891761
b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hdb2 610 4870 34226482+ f Win95 Ext'd
(LBA)
/dev/hdb5 610 1825 9767488+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb6
1826 3041 9767488+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdb7 3042
3678 5116671 83 Linux
/dev/hdb8 3679 3744 530113+ 82
Linux swap
/dev/hdb9 3745 4717 7815591 c Win95 FAT32
(LBA)
/dev/hdb10 4718 4870 1228941 83 Linux
Output of
parted
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# parted /dev/hdb
GNU
Parted 1.6.3
Using /dev/hdb
Information: The operating system thinks
the geometry on /dev/hdb is 4870/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends
at
8032.499M.
(parted) print 10
Warning: Filesystem was not cleanly
unmounted! You should e2fsck.
Ignore/Cancel? i
Minor:
10
Flags:
File System: ext2
Size: 1200.138Mb (3%)
Minimum
size: 108.738Mb (0%)
Maximum size: 38204.578Mb
(100%)
/etc/fstab
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LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults
1 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
3 none
/proc proc defaults 0 0
4 none /dev/shm tmpfs
defaults 0 0
5 /dev/hdb8 swap swap defaults 0
0
6 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy autonoauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
7 /dev/hdb1
/mnt/c auto defaults 0 0
8 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/d ntfs
defaults 0 0
9 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/e auto defaults 0 0
10
/dev/hdb9 /mnt/f auto defaults 0 0
11 /dev/hdb10 /mnt/hurd
auto defaults 0 0
/etc/grub.conf
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title
GNU/Hurd
root (hd0,9)
kernel /boot/gnumach.gz -s
root=device:hd0s10
module /hurd/ext2fs.static
--multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line}
--host-priv-port=${host-port} --device-master-port=${device-port}
--exec-server-task=${exec-task} -T typed ${root} $(task-create)
$(task-resume)
module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec
$(exec-task=task-create)
/proc/interrupts (shared irqs
check)
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 7833 XT-PIC
timer
1: 43 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0
XT-PIC cascade
3: 14 XT-PIC Intel ICH4
5:
0 XT-PIC usb-uhci
9: 0 XT-PIC
usb-uhci
11: 0 XT-PIC usb-uhci
12: 1077
XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 7798 XT-PIC ide0
15:
0 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0
Output
of grub
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GRUB version 0.93 (640K lower / 3072K
upper memory)
grub>
root (hd0,9)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
after:
kernel /boot/gnumach.gz
-s root=device:hd0s10
[Multiboot-elf, <0x100000:0x184a03x0>, <0x285a20:
0x10858: 0x33bdc>, shtab=0x2ca118, entry=0x100000]
after:
module
/hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line}
--host-priv-port=${host-port} --device-master-port=${device-port}
--exec-server-task=${exec-task} -T typed ${root} $(task-create)
$(task-resume)
[Multiboot-module @ 0x2cb000, 0xe5948
bytes]
after:
module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec
$(exec-task=task-create)
[Multiboot-module @ 0x3b1000, 0x18064
bytes]
after that machine HANGS and ctrl-alt-del DOES NOT WORK,
pressing restart...........
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WERE NO ERRORS ON
BOOTING, ONLY THAT IT HANGS AFTER EXECUTING all grub boot
instructions...
thanking you,
anil
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