Boot issue

Maeldun · #1 18th July 2005, 07:30 PM

I installed fedora successfully, I am using acronis but it does not recognize it so I disabled his os selector, reinstalled with grub and grub saw xp in the setup and linux was the primary os, after installation when I rebooted it went straight to xp. any ideas?

Maeldun · #2 18th July 2005, 10:11 PM

Ok, now I got fedora to boot after tinkering with grub, when I select it to boot windows it doesnt boot does that mean I gotta redo windows now?

gertbor · #3 18th July 2005, 10:22 PM

I think that you post your grub file someone will help you. Or not maybe :-)
gertbor

Maeldun · #4 19th July 2005, 01:33 AM

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,4)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda6
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=Fedora rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

thank is my grub

Maeldun · #5 19th July 2005, 02:08 AM

by the way I just noted the error I get when I select to boot XP in grub

Error 21: Selected disk does not exist

thanks for the help in advance

Captn · #6 19th July 2005, 02:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maeldun

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,4)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda6
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=Fedora rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

thank is my grub

This is mine, not sure if it helps. But I hope it might.

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1398_FC4)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1398_FC4smp)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4smp.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1390_FC4)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1390_FC4smp)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4smp.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

jim · #7 19th July 2005, 02:56 AM

you need to map the drives to swap em around

so you choose Fc and XP boots>??
open grub.conf file
comment out windows section with # marks and add the following

Quote:

title Why do I boot into this?? Windows
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

you can remove the "why do i boot into this?? " section if you wish
save the file and reboot and see if it works

Maeldun · #8 19th July 2005, 03:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fedorajim

you need to map the drives to swap em around

so you choose Fc and XP boots>??
open grub.conf file
comment out windows section with # marks and add the following

you can remove the "why do i boot into this?? " section if you wish
save the file and reboot and see if it works

no I choose other(which I renamed to Windows XP) and I get error 21 Selected disk does not exist, when I choose fedora, fedora boots fine which is what I am in right now. Do you still want me to edit the grub.conf file ?

jim · #9 19th July 2005, 03:03 AM

yup try it out

Maeldun · #10 19th July 2005, 03:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fedorajim

yup try it out

did that got error 21: selected disk does not exist

steve941 · #11 19th July 2005, 06:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maeldun

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,4)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda6
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=Fedora rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

thank is my grub

do you have xp on another hd?
according to grub it looks like you do
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
that's saying hd 1 instead of hd 0
and if you don't have another hd then
that's probably why you got that error
try something like
rootnoverify (hd0,1) -- depends on your config

Metil · #12 19th July 2005, 06:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maeldun

I installed fedora successfully, I am using acronis but it does not recognize it so I disabled his os selector, reinstalled with grub and grub saw xp in the setup and linux was the primary os, after installation when I rebooted it went straight to xp. any ideas?

Have you tried to install GRUB on the boot partition instead of MBR and then install OS Selector? It worked for me. Just my $0.02

Maeldun · #13 20th July 2005, 06:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by steve941

do you have xp on another hd?
according to grub it looks like you do
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
that's saying hd 1 instead of hd 0
and if you don't have another hd then
that's probably why you got that error
try something like
rootnoverify (hd0,1) -- depends on your config

I trued 0,0 and 0,1

for 0,0 I got an error, for 0,1 it showed the commands and just sat there so I rebooted but no luck

Maeldun · #14 20th July 2005, 06:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Metil

Have you tried to install GRUB on the boot partition instead of MBR and then install OS Selector? It worked for me. Just my $0.02

I always tried on MBR but before it was writing to another disk so I went ot advanced config for it during install and changed the drive order, then grub started working and thats when xp quit booting

steve941 · #15 20th July 2005, 11:46 PM

i guess you could try 0,2 .. It really depends what partition is windows and I can't say for your setup..
but you are probably going to have to reinstall grub