problem booting Gentoo from sdb

[alocacoc]

I tried to install Grub
Error 25 while booting.

Tried LILO and it didn't work also. The error which lilo gave out meant that LILO cannot find its configuration file. Lilo also told me something is wrong with the partition table which it tried to fix, and after fixing it didn't give out any error message about this anymore.

Seems something is wrong with my hdd where Gentoo is on.

sda = hdd one, it holds Windows
sdb = hdd two, it holds Gentoo, sdb1=boot

So grub or lilo cannot start even into the selection screen

Booted a live cd and installed grub4dos, which worked, at least grub can now find its config on sda

Booting windows from there works well, on sda

Booting gentoo from sdb doesn't work, starting gives this error:

filesystem type :, ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/my kernel name root=/dev/sdb3
Error 25: disk read error

It can see its ext2fs, so it has to be able to access the disk I guess, how else can it know this.

I'm not sure how to fix this. The error is the same like grub told me, Error 25, after all grub4dos is based on grub source.

Anybody any clue how I can boot gentoo from that hdd?

Thank you.

[DONAHUE]

[alocacoc]

fdisk -l

...
Disk /dev/sdb: 60,0 GB, 163928604672 bytes
224 heads, 19 sectors/track, 75228 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4256 * 512 = 2179072 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 5 31250 83 Linux
Partition does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sdb2 5 70 524288 83 Linux
Partition does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sdb3 70 7298 58057728 83 Linux
...



fsck /dev/sdb1
e2fsck 1.41.14
/dev/sdb1: clean, 11/7840 files, 1375/31248 blocks

[DONAHUE]

does windows still boot?

boot cd and enter the chroot, nominally:(nominal may be wrong for you, nominal /dev/sdb2 would be "82 Linux swap / Solaris" not "83 Linux")

[alocacoc]

Thank you for your answer.

the harddisk seems to be faulty. I tried other distributions and nothing can boot up from this harddisk. It can hold files though once its mounted into a running system, this is why I was able to install Gentoo on it and it failed when loading from grub and lilo. I tried your installation process, but it won't work. It will set it up correctly, but it cannot boot up caused of the faulty disk.

I am taking a 120GB harddisk from my old computer in my hometown this weekend. I will report back once I tested installing on it, but it will take a while.

Thank you for your help.

[alocacoc]

Confirmed that it was the 80GB harddisks fault. With my 120GB harddisk everything worked out fine.

Thank you for your help.

[WorBlux]