gnu grub not working after partitioning.

DONAHUE · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:41 pm Post subject:

stating darkstarbyte's situation: He has a working grub2 on his primary boot disk.
He needs to add a menu entry to the grub2 mess to boot the secondary disk that contains gentoo.
He states that his bios does not recognize the secondary disk as bootable.
Unless BIOS recognizes the secondary drive as bootable any attempt to use (hd1) in any type of grub is doomed to fail.
As he has not reported any results of:

darkstarbyte · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Aug 2010 Posts: 120

as in apt-get update.

the reason why my bios wont boot my pata is because some how i messed it up it used to but not anymore.
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DONAHUE · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:14 pm Post subject:

clarify the language: does the pata drive show up in the bios list of bootable drives? This is a different question from "Can you boot the pata drive?" Have you done

darkstarbyte · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Aug 2010 Posts: 120

it shows up but has not been boot able since i messed my bios up some how.
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Alkin · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 21 Location: Bulgaria

Sorry for the delay I was bussy.
I am ready to help and I in yahoo

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DONAHUE · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:28 pm Post subject:

you did not mess up your bios.
get a digital camera
start a reboot, enter bios, set the pata drive as first to boot, when the crash occurs, take a picture, paste it at your favorite free photo site, post the url here

darkstarbyte · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Aug 2010 Posts: 120

its there but cant be selected as a boot device i am thinking about removing it to make things simpler and put it in another computer. my gentoo partition is on my sata
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Alkin · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 21 Location: Bulgaria

Should I wait you in yahoo or not?
If you are not ready at the moment we can do it later?

darkstarbyte · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Aug 2010 Posts: 120

i am logged in and every thing but you show up as off line
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you're whiling away some time in the computer department at your local store, spot a dialog box on the one of the laptops that calmly announces"Mcfee. Your computer is at risk",and totally get the unintended humor.

Alkin · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 21 Location: Bulgaria

what is your yahoo user name? You can send it as PM.

darkstarbyte · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Aug 2010 Posts: 120

ok
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you're whiling away some time in the computer department at your local store, spot a dialog box on the one of the laptops that calmly announces"Mcfee. Your computer is at risk",and totally get the unintended humor.

DONAHUE · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:57 pm Post subject:

logical syllogism:
you can boot ubuntu
if you can only boot the sata drive
then ubuntu is on the sata drive

darkstarbyte · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Aug 2010 Posts: 120

ubuntu is live cd and some tried to help for a few hours said thanks. So the grub 2 thing be back tomarrow.
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you're whiling away some time in the computer department at your local store, spot a dialog box on the one of the laptops that calmly announces"Mcfee. Your computer is at risk",and totally get the unintended humor.

darkstarbyte · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Aug 2010 Posts: 120

i am reinstall it now.
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you're whiling away some time in the computer department at your local store, spot a dialog box on the one of the laptops that calmly announces"Mcfee. Your computer is at risk",and totally get the unintended humor.