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Hi u all

Me again, with a weird problem ( certainly not a gentoo one, but.... ):

If I replace the primary slave drive, which is usually a CD Writer,whith a
hard disk (partitionned or not) , I can't boot with Grub ( either on hd or
floppy ) :

boot from HD gives a 'error 17', while a floppy boot gives an GRUB , an
nothing else.
If I just remove the primary slave, Grub launches the system, and everything
works well.

My system is like this :

hda : boot on MBR , XP on an ntfs partitionned
hdc has seven partitions, Gentoo on hdc3 and hdc5 , mandriva on hdc7(boot
partition) and 8

I can boot on a Lilo floppy ( but only mandriva and XP) , no matter the
primary slave is.
To make it clear :

1 Slave = CD Writer -> Grub OK, from floppy or HD
1 Slave = nothing -> Grub OK, from floppy or HD
1 Slave = hard disk -> Error 17 from HD ;
-> GRUB from floppy

Lilo is always happy, but I don't really know how to boot 2 different Linux
system with it , and, until now, Grub always made me happy.
I've been looking in several forums, and on the 'Gentoo Grub Error
Collection', but haven't found the answer.
Could any of you help me with that ?
Oh, BTW, I've already checked grub.conf and device.map

Thanks in advance,
regards,
jf

On Wed, 10 May 2006 12:35:21 +0200, jf wrote:

> Oh, BTW, I've already checked grub.conf and device.map

I don't know how anybody can reliably help you seeing them. Do
you mind posting the files (inline, not as attachments)?

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> On Wed, 10 May 2006 12:35:21 +0200, jf wrote:
>
>> Oh, BTW, I've already checked grub.conf and device.map
>
> I don't know how anybody can reliably help you seeing them. Do
> you mind posting the files (inline, not as attachments)?
>
> --
> Ben Measures
> $email =~ s/is@silly/@/
>
Hi,

Actually, your answer helped ! It made me have a closer look at these
files !
I can't try now, but I'll have to change device.map and grub.conf !
As I've replaced a CD Writer wih a HD, there is a change in the number after
hd.

device.map contains :

(fd0), /dev/fd0
(hd0), /dev/hda -> OK
(hd1), /dev/hdc -> not true anymore , I should put /dev/hdb

and I should add :
(hd2), /dev/hdc

same in grub.conf , where it refers to hd1 , which is now the new empty hard
disk
will the change in these file be enough ?

thanks again, I'll post the result here

regards,
jf

jf wrote:


> Hi,
>
> Actually, your answer helped ! It made me have a closer look at these
> files !
> I can't try now, but I'll have to change device.map and grub.conf !
> As I've replaced a CD Writer wih a HD, there is a change in the number
> after hd.
>
> device.map contains :
>
> (fd0), /dev/fd0
> (hd0), /dev/hda -> OK
> (hd1), /dev/hdc -> not true anymore , I should put /dev/hdb
>
> and I should add :
> (hd2), /dev/hdc
>
> same in grub.conf , where it refers to hd1 , which is now the new empty
> hard disk
> will the change in these file be enough ?
>
> thanks again, I'll post the result here
>
> regards,
> jf

OK, I took it the simplest way : just put he new HD as secondary slave. I
got then hdc to be (hd1), and it works again. Then, I'll try to remember
that : read your configuration files three times, and ask your brain before
you post, sometimes, the answer is just there

thanks again
regards,
jf

jf wrote:

> got then hdc to be (hd1), and it works again. Then, I'll try to remember
> that : read your configuration files three times, and ask your brain
> before you post, sometimes, the answer is just there
But your brain needs the postings to keep thinking in the
right pathways, so just post if necessary.

Peter.

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"Peter J. de Vrijer" <pdevrijer_nospam_@home.nl> a écrit dans le message de
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> But your brain needs the postings to keep thinking in the
> right pathways, so just post if necessary.
>
> Peter.
>

You are right And maybe it'll help somebody else not to make the same
mistake.

regards,
jf