Re: GRUB Hard Disk Error

2010-05-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
plug in the first one i tried] it say's: GRUB hard disk error What can I do? Different UUID? In the console as root type "blkid" to get UUID of your partitions then setup /etc/fstab accordingly, you also may need to change the kernel syntax too. -- Jimmy Johnson Sim

GRUB Hard Disk Error

2010-05-21 Thread Jozsi Vadkan
one i tried] it say's: GRUB hard disk error What can I do? I already tried: grub-install /dev/sdc <-that's the pendrive name [bios -> hard drive emulation=hard drive, not auto] or: # grub find /boot/grub/stage1 hd0,0 hd1,0 root (hd0,0) setup (hd0,0) etc. What's the solution?

Re: "Grub Hard Disk Error", after installing from sarge floppies

2004-11-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Joao Clemente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 30 20:09 -0600]: > >grub is "unreasonably" finicky > > What means "finicky"? 1rst time I see this word Probably the best way to explain it is to say that it is very particular about everything being setup the way it likes it and if not then it fa

Re: "Grub Hard Disk Error", after installing from sarge floppies

2004-11-30 Thread Joao Clemente
Joao Clemente wrote: [snip] 3) install into the boot sector of the partition (/dev/hda1 ) instead MBR of the disk ( /dev/hda ) - but the mbr must be empty too I am not certain of you're refering to grub, lilo, or both. I see no reason why grub (or lilo) would fail when installed in MBR bu

Re: "Grub Hard Disk Error", after installing from sarge floppies

2004-11-30 Thread Joao Clemente
Hi Alvin. Once again, thanks for your ultra-fast reply. I have not been able to understand completly what you've said so I'll comment along your mail, ok? Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Joao Clemente wrote: ...but when one is suposed to get the GRUB menu, I get simply a "

Re: "Grub Hard Disk Error", after installing from sarge floppies

2004-11-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
On these old machines it was often necessary to use a scheme called Logical Block Addressing (LBA) to allow MS-DOS access to the entire drive. Many later 486 machines incorporated LBA into the BIOS and once activated is rather seemless. If the BIOS did not support LBA the drive manufacturer often

Re: "Grub Hard Disk Error", after installing from sarge floppies

2004-11-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Joao Clemente wrote: > ...but when one is suposed to get the GRUB menu, I get simply a > "GRUB Hard Disk Error" message grub is "unreasonably" finicky you have several choices.. 1) boot into dos a:> fdisk /mbr -- wipe it o

"Grub Hard Disk Error", after installing from sarge floppies

2004-11-29 Thread Joao Clemente
reboot to continue from the freshly installed system... ...but when one is suposed to get the GRUB menu, I get simply a "GRUB Hard Disk Error" message googling revealed problems when using dual-booting, XP or stuff like that. I am using a full-disk install over a win95 installation, s