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Grub boot loader not working to boot off removable drive
From: |
Jennifer M. Morse |
Subject: |
Grub boot loader not working to boot off removable drive |
Date: |
Sun, 02 Mar 2003 04:17:16 -0500 |
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I have a second hard drive caddy which plugs into the removable media
bay of my Dell Inspiron 8100 notebook. This is the same bay as my floppy
drive, so, I have to remove the floppy to access the second, 10 gig,
drive. My primary drive is a 40 gig drive that holds Win2k. It has two
partitions, the boot C: drive is NTFS. The E: drive is Fat32, and used
to store all my document files.
I updated the BIOS of my notebook to put the boot order as follows:
CD/DVD drive
Removable media hard drive
floppy drive
primary hard drive
I installed Redhat Linux 7.3 right "out of the box" with Grub as the
boot loader. It was the basic "notebook" install in the Redhat install
screen. I have the Personal edition that I ordered directly from
Redhat. I installed it onto the removable drive. Because I don't want to
write to the MBR of the primary drive, I configured the installer to
create a /boot area on the beginning of the 10 gig drive. That way, when
I remove the drive, the machine will boot to Windows, and when the drive
is installed, it will boot to Linux (because it's earlier in the boot
order than the C drive).
When I boot with the 10 gig drive in the bay, it starts to go through
the boot process and then stops with this error:
root(hd1,0)
File System Type unknown, partition type 0xde
Kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hdc2 hdb=ide-scsi
error 17 cannot mount selected partition
It doesn't technically "freeze", because I can still type on the keys
and get responses. But, it alternates between the opening Grub splash
screen, and the above message. The boot process is certainly halted from
proceeding any further.
That said, I've been asking around and as far as I can tell, it's likely
to be a problem with Grub trying to load the C drive intead of the
removable drive. Each drive is configured properly in fstab (the primary
drive is hda and hdb, the removable drive is hdc).
I'm able to manuever around in redhat rescue quite well. I can mount the
installed drive and it's all there. It only won't work wiith Grub. I
also haven't gotten "find" to work although that may not be related.
This is all the information I know how to provide. If you need more
(especially specific documents), let me know so I can copy them out to
text files.
--
Jennifer M. Morse (address@hidden)
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Physics Department -- Building 510 M -- ext 7710
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