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| Thread ID: 42077 | 2004-01-31 06:50:00 | Linux - convince me it's worth it - No flaming please | chiefnz (545) | Press F1 |
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| 211788 | 2004-01-31 09:54:00 | > Grub works by taking the first HDD and making it hd0. This is regardless of where it is, be it Primary Slave or Master.. Whatever, its just the First HDD... That's interesting, Chill. How does it determine which HDD is the first one, though? |
dudess_on_a_mish (4468) | ||
| 211789 | 2004-01-31 10:31:00 | > That's interesting, Chill. How does it determine > which HDD is the first one, though? Im not 100% sure on that, but I know that when I compiled it from source on my Gentoo system it did a bit of Scanning of hardware etc. Basically, this is the order it checks for HDD's: Primary Master Primary Slave Secondary Master Secondary Slave Now, lets say you're like chiefnz and have a HDD on your Primary Master and Primary Slave, then the hd0 is the one on your Primary Master, and hd1 is the Primary Slave. On my system, I have my CD-R/W as my Primary Master (I bought a DVD-Rom a while back that wouldnt let my system boot unless it was Primary Master - Ive replaced it since) and my Hard Drive as my Secondary Master... hd0 is still my First HDD (And only HDD) although its the Secondary Master. For a while I had a 6gb hdd, it was Secondary Slave for a while, which made it hd1 in Grub. I moved it before I formatted it, and put it as the Primary Slave, then it became hd0 and my Main HDD became hd1. Entries in Linux are different: /dev/hda = Primary Master /dev/hdb = Primary Slave /dev/hdc = Secondary Master /dev/hdd = Secondary Slave This means that you can chop and change your HDD's and wont have to worry about hd0 changing ;-) Hope this makes sense Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 211790 | 2004-02-01 00:57:00 | Ok here's what the Grub.conf file looks like I don't know if it's correct but I'm going to change that "rootverify" bit and see what happens. #grub.conf generated by anaconda #Note you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file. #NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means than all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg # root (hd0,0) #kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2 #initrd /initrd-versioin.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0) /grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL= /hdc=ide=scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img title Windows 2000 Professional rootverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 Well that's it guys, anyone see any problems... man I want this to work. Any assistance would be appreciated, in the meantime thanks to all who posted replies, specially Chill and Jen you guys ROCK!!! Still havn't got the NIC up and running yet, it's a pain to say the least, I hope I can get it working soon, I hate having to shut down between Linux and Windows everytime I want to post or see what others have posted. Also I'm going to try updating the GeForce FX card drivers now.... at least I hope to get that working. cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 211791 | 2004-02-01 01:17:00 | Thanks for the explanation Chill, it er.... sort of makes sense. :p :D | dudess_on_a_mish (4468) | ||
| 211792 | 2004-02-01 02:23:00 | If that's the grub.conf that was automatically generated it ought to work. :D I have a suspicion that the grub boot manager is installed on the 10GB and this is the active drive. For Windows to boot, I think it requires its disk to be the "active" one. There is a grub command to make the partition active. Use man grub (or is it info grub?). I know that grub works well if the Windows and Linux are in separate partitions of the same drive, which is the active one. :D We've got another thread which is a similar problem ... |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 211793 | 2004-02-01 02:28:00 | Ok, still having probs with NIC and grub. As far as grub's concerned would it make a difference if i re-installed leaving my 80GB (windows) as the primary master, would that affect windows starting up? I so wanna get this to work? :( cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 211794 | 2004-02-01 02:42:00 | That might be a quick and dirty fix. I like quick and dirty fixes. :D If you make the 80Gb (Windows) disk the active one, and do an "upgrade" install of the Linux (it will happily "upgrade" to the same version) that should keep most settings. But it should then create a new grub setup which will work. I hope. Make the drive the active one (Linux fdisk will do that safely). Then make sure that it boots to Windows from a cold start after that. Then boot from the Linux CD. The 3Com card should be handled OK. If you did a "make" to compile a module, did you do a "make install" to get it put in the correct /lib/modules/... tree where modprobe expects to find modules? |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 211795 | 2004-02-01 10:01:00 | You still need to change the grub.conf file! Adjust: rootnoverify (hd1,0) so it says: rootnoverify (hd0,0) Im pretty sure that's where your problem lies.... Make sure you edit as root, or you wont be able to save to it! /etc/grub.conf Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 211796 | 2004-02-01 20:23:00 | SUCCESS!!!! Well not really but the good news is I have GRUB loading all my OS's properly. I did a re-install with the 80GB (windows) drive on master and the 10GB (Linux) drive on slave, worked like a charm... I think it was Graham that said Windows needed to have it's partiton active to boot, tried changing the "rootverify" Chill but then it wouldn't boot at all. Well still can't load the drivers for my NIC (that really sucks), I can't install the drivers for my GeForce FX cartd cos I need to be connected to the internet, and after installling the mp3 rpm I still don't hear anything. Basically what happens is I load the songs and then press play, but then it goes at like fast forward speed, a 4 minute song is over in 5 sec, and I don't hear anything at all. Is it just me or am I doomed to a life of MS software, roaming around endlessly in my digital office with a can of RAID just so I can beat the bugs in the system. :( If anyone has any ideas please post 'em I need allthe help I can get thanks. Gonna check the Red Hat and 3Com sites to see if I can find anything there. cheers chiefnz PS: Is the next issue of PC World ouot yet? I been looking for it in stores but can't seem to find it? |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 211797 | 2004-02-01 21:05:00 | Not sure about Redhat but Fedora has problems with certain 3com cards. bugzilla.redhat.com |
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