Grub Error Collection [Part 3]

southpaw · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 3:04 am Post subject:

Hello All,
I don't know if anyone has had this problem before with Grub (whether it's Grub or not I'm not sure, but that's what I intend to find out) before, but anyway here goes :wink:

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I've done many Gentoo install's most of which have gone without a hitch, especially without any problems from Grub. However, this time Grub appears to have disappeared

. Let me be a little more specific. I did everything that you had to do to install Grub including creating the "grub.conf" file that goes in the /boot directory. However, upon reboot I get the typical "Gentoo Linux Grub Splash" with the title and kernel image etc..etc.. But when I press enter and the system begins its initialization process I noticed that the emergence splash image that I added to the "grub.conf" file never shows up

!!! So after I login, I go into the /boot directory to check my "grub.conf" file, but to my surprise it was nowhere to be found

.

Does this sound familiar to anyone, if so I would appreciate a little guidence, THANX

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jan.mrazek · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 37

Hello,

I have the error :

alanzilli · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 11

I am having some problems with my grub. it seems to have installed without errors but when i reboot i get the
grub> command line

if i enter the kernel then boot i can get into my linux. or if i do configfile /boot/grub/grub.conf it will go black for a bit then load linux. but i never get a choice.

my fdisk looks like:

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5168 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 3190 24116368+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 * 3191 3195 37800 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 3196 3262 506520 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda4 3263 5168 14409360 83 Linux

and my config file is:

default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,1) /grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.13-r3
root (hd0,1)
kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=$initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.13-gentoo-r3

title=Windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

i have read this whole thread and i still cant figure it out.

help please

southpaw · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:59 pm Post subject:

Hey guys, in reference to my earlier post, could my issue have anything to do with my CFLAGS???
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jmbsvicetto · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:03 am Post subject:

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:06 am Post subject: Re: Find my fstab

NotQuiteSane · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 3:17 am Post subject:

I'm having another one of those "Not found or not a block device." grub problems.

I had previously sucsesfully setup this box with a 2 gb drive (/dev/hdc) (it's slated to be a firewall /router only). After deciding that was too small, and that my / was too big, I added in a 3gb (hdb) drive, did a stage4 backup, repartitioned/formated and restored from backup, then edited /etc/fstab & grub.conf. that failed with the same error I am getting. attempt to use the grub shell, tab completion does not recognize any devices.

Today I swapped cdrom (hda) and hdb, making the cdrom the master slave, and verified tyhe boot order in the bios.

Here is a script from my unsucessfull attempt today:

NotQuiteSane · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 3:37 am Post subject:

Whoops. Belay my last. I solved it with:

jan.mrazek · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 37

Oh, sorry. I thought that I had checked my grub.conf enough. But when I begun to copy it in this reply, I saw my misspell error : initrid instead of initrd.

Sorry again for that, and thank you for your reply....

Best regards

Jan

southpaw · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 3:53 pm Post subject:

Hey Jmbsvicetto,
I did what you said, and heres what I got:

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 5:06 pm Post subject:

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DakkoN · n00b Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 3

First of all, sorry if this question has been resolved on another place but I have not been able to find it...

I am installing my beloved Gentoo 2005.1 on a Packard Bell 3GHz (I think is an iMedia) with a 200GB SATA hard disk (ST3200826AS). I had installed Gentoo without any problem in a wide spectrum of computers until now...

The problem is that I cannot install grub or lilo, when I chroot nor grub or lilo manage to recognize my hard disk, therefor when I type: "root (" on the grub console I don't get any options... By the way, my hard disk is on /dev/sde but in the chrooted environment there is no /dev/sde as there are only /dev/sda-/dev/sdd devices created. I don't know if this is related in any way...

running /sbin/lilo outputs: Fatal: raid_setup: stat("/dev/sde5"). sde5 is my /boot partition.

If you need more info please ask me, I'm quite depressed this is not working... :'(

Thanks in advance!!

SOLUTION: A lot of thanks to jmbsvicetto :!:

The trick succeeded (mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev), I guess that it was a problem with the number of device nodes available... Anyway, thanks!

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 11:18 am Post subject:

Hi DakkoN and welcome to the forums.

Before you chroot do the following

mash · n00b Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 2 Location: Finland

So, i'm having problems with grub and windows.
See, my windows doesn't boot. I've tried everything, but all it gives me is 'Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format'

Here's the complete output:

steve_d555 · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:28 pm Post subject: Error 17

Hello,
I'm having some wierd Grub problems. I installed Gentoo around 3 months ago and grub dual-booting windows and gentoo has been perfect for that long. Then, today I finally decided to upgrade my kernel and did the normal things. But, right after installing and trying to reboot (2.6.13 kernel btw) I get Grub Error 17 which means it can't read my boot partition. Which is odd, because I've tried reinstalling grub in knoppix, and from the gentoo liveCD and it says it works perfectly, but I still keep getting error 17 (the partition is ext2). Do I move all my kernels and such out of /boot, wipe it, then reinstall grub and see if it works?

Thanks,
Steve

EDIT: also, if this matters, the partitions are on SATA drives, but that hasn't mattered before.
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steve_d555 · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:25 pm Post subject: Re: Error 17

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 1:55 am Post subject:

steve_d555,

actually it isn't GRUB who's very sensitive to USB disks, it's your BIOS and kernel! The kernel creates for an USB disk a /dev/sdX device. If you also have SATA disks, which also get /dev/sdX devices, by taking the USB disks, you might be altering the disks partitions. The BIOS also gives ids to the disks that depend on the hardware present. If you look at

steve_d555 · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 2:04 am Post subject:

spOOwn · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:14 am Post subject:

i've got a new problem, i think it is related to grub configuration file, but i'm not sure, so here is my problem

when i want to boot my linux partition, some lines print out, and the last 2 lines say me this :

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:10 am Post subject:

spOOwn · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject:

you were right, i forget to enable reiserfs in my kernel :roll:

Akaihiryuu · l33t Joined: 08 May 2003 Posts: 794 Location: Columbus, OH

I'm still having issues getting GRUB installed.

When it didn't work the first time, I set the custom-cflags USE flag and re-emerged it, thinking that might help. It made no difference, I'm still getting the same issue. From the grub shell, it almost looks like it installs, but nothing is ever written to the MBR. Grub-install says it completed successfully but once again, nothing is written to the MBR. LILO works fine...I'm booting with it right now. This GRUB installation attempt does not overwrite LILO...LILO still works. I want to switch to GRUB though because I don't like LILO. I've used GRUB successfully on 3 other machines with no problems. I'm tearing my hair out over this...does anyone have any suggestions? Here's the output of the GRUB shell:

grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... failed (this is not fatal)
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this is not fatal)
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.l
st "... succeeded
Done.

/dev/hda1 is ext2, /boot
/dev/hda2 is swap
/dev/hda3 is ext3, /
/dev/hda4 is ext3, /home

Here's the output of grub-install (which also does nothing, it doesn't overwrite LILO):

triforce akai # grub-install /dev/hda
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.

(hd0) /dev/hda

The only thing that I can even think of that it possibly could be is some kind of permissions issue, but I checked and they look okay. Here's /boot:

triforce akai # ls -l /boot
total 2206
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Oct 5 14:56 System.map -> System.map-2.6.12.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 868513 Oct 5 19:19 System.map-2.6.12.5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Oct 3 03:00 boot -> .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Oct 4 11:08 boot.0300
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Oct 5 14:56 bzImage -> bzImage-2.6.12.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1361956 Oct 5 19:20 bzImage-2.6.12.5
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 29 18:56 grub
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Oct 3 02:56 lost+found

Here's /boot/grub:

triforce akai # ls -l /boot/grub
total 474
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 197 Oct 4 17:45 default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15 Oct 4 17:44 device.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8672 Oct 27 04:19 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8368 Oct 27 04:19 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7680 Oct 27 04:19 ffs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 330 Oct 5 14:57 grub.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1624 Oct 27 04:19 grub.conf.sample
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7744 Oct 27 04:19 iso9660_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9344 Oct 27 04:19 jfs_stage1_5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Oct 4 10:45 menu.lst -> grub.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7808 Oct 27 04:19 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10368 Oct 27 04:19 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33856 Oct 27 04:19 splash.xpm.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Oct 27 04:19 stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 119624 Oct 27 04:19 stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108328 Oct 4 17:45 stage2.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 119624 Oct 27 04:19 stage2_eltorito
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8052 Oct 27 04:19 ufs2_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7264 Oct 27 04:19 vstafs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10440 Oct 27 04:19 xfs_stage1_5

And here's the output of df:

triforce akai # df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 38456340 2310064 34192772 7% /
udev 453176 112 453064 1% /dev
/dev/hda4 118065484 23755364 88312656 22% /home
shm 453176 0 453176 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 69995 2721 63660 5% /boot