Grub Problem - not finding the answer

manleyjt · #1 22nd December 2006, 11:34 PM

I am a NOOB. I have been working with FC1 thru 5 for about a year. I was having good luck until I reached fC5. I installed FC5 and suddenly get the GRUB GEOM ERROR. I have successfully loaded and dual booted all the other FC versions with win2000. Now suddenly I get the geom error.

What has changed in the anaconda installer or GRUB that caused a change?

Also help on fixing the mess that has been created will help. I tried using linux resue and re-installing grub to the MBR. will reboot as long as the PC is not powered down. if it is powered down, all is lost and you have to go through the resue again.

I had everything working and grub bootloader was working, even after a power down. I installed webmin, looked at the grub boot loader module (plus alot of other modules to get a feel for webmin in FC5) and it now gives GRUG GEOM Error.

Is this issue being worked on by Fedora Core Programers? It appears that this is not only limited to XP as it is hapening with Win2000.

Thanks for the help.

leigh123linux · #2 23rd December 2006, 12:14 AM

try changing bios battery

manleyjt · #3 24th December 2006, 07:59 PM

Leigh123,

With all the talk that is on the forums, you think my situation is simply a problem with a low battery on the main board?

That is not something I have read to date.

What has me baflled is that the other FC version worked flawlessly. The box that I am having trouble with is one that I use for a test box and have never encountered a problem with any distribution and dual boot until now.

i wil check the battery. If there are other ideas I would like to hear them. By the way, all drives are being represented correctly in bios. No change of drives has occured through out the testing (2 plus years with over a year with the FC versions) of different distros. The machine is as it has been so cannot seem to pin it down.

I am on a different machine at the moment and will have to pull specs on the Dell Optiplex GX110 that I am working with.

Thanks for the help.

leigh123linux · #4 24th December 2006, 08:03 PM

If the battery for cmos is flat all settings are lost on a complete power shut off.

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Also help on fixing the mess that has been created will help. I tried using linux resue and re-installing grub to the MBR. will reboot as long as the PC is not powered down. if it is powered down, all is lost and you have to go through the resue again.

Leigh

manleyjt · #5 26th December 2006, 02:39 PM

No problem with the cmos battery. Checked voltage, checked to within spec.

I think I have solved the issue. I removed the LVM from the drive partitioning and partitioned as one would have previously. I am just now updating the software and loading webmin. I will see if I can break things in a few days.

The bios is (and has been ) identifying all drives and hardware correctly.

Thanks for the help.