Grub can't find my drive.

[schwim]

Hi there guys,

This isn't a Fedora exclusive, as it's happened to me on other linux installs. I have an MSI P965 Neo mainboard with a JMicron HDD controller that is causing me fits. All windows installs boot swimmingly, but for the life of me, I can't get Grub to find my drive.

I installed F10 via the live cd and it found the drive fine at that time. On boot, I get:


grub>


"kernel" nets me:


Selected disk does not exist.


I dumped the IDE drive and installed a SATA drive, placing it on what JMicron calls 0 and the mainboard now detects it as the primary drive on bootup, which I thought would solve my problem, so I ran the livecd again. Unfortunately, still nothing.

What's the story, morning glory? I'm still running Fedora 7, which relegates me to archaic software. I'm looking forward to the 21st Century. I hear you guys have nifty underwear that cleans itself.

thanks,
json

[SlowJet]

Last I read was that there was a misery bug for some machine where grub does not install.
I think the fix is to just install grub and (rebuild the initrd?) I guess that would require a rescue system which does not exist for f10.

Try opensolarius, much better than f7. :)

SJ

[schwim]

Last I read was that there was a misery bug for some machine where grub does not install.
I think the fix is to just install grub and (rebuild the initrd?) I guess that would require a rescue system which does not exist for f10.

Try opensolarius, much better than f7. :)

SJ

Hi there slowjet, and thanks for the reply.

Any linux install is going to do the same thing, since they use Grub to boot, and I've always stayed with Fedora, so 10 is my next attempt at an upgrade(9 sucked).

How would I rebuild Grub?

thanks,
json

PS: This is why I love linux. Everything is so intuitive and trouble-free.

[SlowJet]

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=207096&highlight=grub-install

search on grub-install

Want me to come over and reboot it for ya? hehehe

SJ

[Dan]

Well! Long time, no see schwim. Good to see your smilin' face again here on the forum. Howz trix?

[schwim]

Want me to come over and reboot it for ya? hehehe

SJ

Although I'll never turn down an offer of assistance, I would rather you actually fix the problem for me, as the reboot feature works excellently.

Well! Long time, no see schwim. Good to see your smilin' face again here on the forum. Howz trix?

I'll let you know as soon as my boot drama draws to a conclusion :)

thanks,
json

[schwim]

So easy, a grandma can use it.

Alright guys, I've got a copy of Supergrub and F10 livecd, but can't figure out how to get to a prompt in either. I counted 27 separate menus in supergrub and all the auto repairs fail. I can't get to a prompt in it to run anything. altering the f10 live cd boot command by hitting escape and entering "linux rescue" or any of the other commands that used to work doesn't seem to do anything either. Trying to repair in the terminal of the livecd session doesn't work either.

I'm very much looking forward to day two of my Fedora install. I just can't wait to tackle the dualhead aspect of it. I may just pee myself while setting up the network aspect of it.

I'm going to give all of my family members a linux install for Christmas.

If someone can help me to actually get an operating system, I'll send you a cd as well. Because I love you all.

[schwim]

I downloaded systemrepaircd (http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page) and got to a prompt.

chroot /mnt/sysimage nets me "no such file or directory, so after mkdir, I tried it again, this time earning me a "cannot run command '/bin/zsh': No such file or directory."

So, I can't change to that directory because zsh doesn't exist. /bin/sh -i doesn't do any better.

I booted into the F10 livecd, opened a terminal and as root, ran mkdir. chroot command nets me "chroot: cannot run command '/bin/bash': No such file or directory manually moving to that dir and running the grub-install command ends in "The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly."

Continued assistance in this matter would be something I could really get behind.

thanks,
json

[schwim]

I moved the drive off of the SATA0 port and onto the ich8 controlled ports(SATA3) and reinstalled the livecd, resulting in a working F10 installation.

I want to thank God for my ability to install in under 48 hours, my parents for believing in me and all the little people, like SlowJet, who allowed me to stand on their backs to get where I am today.

I'm off to get some nvidia drivers and a working dualhead setup.

thanks,
json

[Dan]

Morning, schwim.

I see you've found a solution. JUst a heads up, the dbus debacle is about to get addressed by the PTBs. We'll post the fix as soon as we get it.

For the extra goodies, Dangermouse's autoten RPM (check his signature link, or his thread in the how-tos) seems to be working like a charm. Kind of a one-stop-shop sort of deal to get the fun shtuff.

[scottro]

Yes, but then to whom would he complain?
We miss ya Schwim, good to see you.

[schwim]

Don't worry Scott, I'll never run out of complaints. It's as if you don't know me. I've always been unreasonable when it comes to installs spanning weeks. It's just a shortcoming of mine that I've come to not only expect, but embrace.

Thanks for the heads up, Dan. I'll find his profile.

thanks,
json

[Dan]

Speaking of things taking weeks ... whussup wid the Dribble page? My last wiseacre crack has been languishing since yesterday afternoon. Come on, man! High quality humor shouldn't have to cool its heels in an email que. <..:D..>

[schwim]

You'll have to forgive me. For the last couple of days, I've been working off of my Blackberry :) A few comments have piled up.

Thanks a bunch for the pointer to DM. That's the most whizz-bang app I've used yet in regards to dirty additions.

thanks,
json