Quoting winglion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: well, your partition table shows that your harddisk is 40gb and you've created the first primary partition to be FAT which is covering the 1024 cylinders range.. As per my knowledge, you'll never be able to boot from the harddisk thisway,, you'll have to use the floppy Ritesh > Sorry that I mixed the device name of grub and linux! > this is the partition tabel I got,using parted command: > Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0.000-38166.679 megabytes > Disk label type: msdos > Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags > 1 0.031 9546.438 primary FAT boot, lba > 2 9546.438 38162.219 extended lba > 5 9546.500 14543.217 logical ext3 > 6 14543.249 15539.436 logical linux-swap > 7 15539.467 16041.467 logical ext3 > 8 16041.498 19092.875 logical FAT > 9 19092.907 28639.313 logical FAT > 10 28639.345 38162.219 logical FAT > > this is the device.map > # this device map was generated by anaconda > (fd0) /dev/fd0 > (hd0) /dev/hdb > > now the thing get worse after my trying to use "grub-install" command to > install grub! > I type :grub-install -recheck /dev/hdb > it told me :/boot/grub/stag1 not read correctly! > I had try to copy the /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/stage1 stage2 to overwrite the > them, > but the result is the same error! Adding the "--force-lba" to the command > didn't work either! > > Now that I had to use a floppy to boot my pc(Thanks god ,I had made one after > setup)! > the command I use to boot linux is > root(hd0,5) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 root=/dev/hdb5 > > Thank's for your help anyway! More advice please! Thank you! > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Ritesh R. Sarraf "To learn, you've got to get your hands dirty."
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