/ hda7 5GB /home hda8 11GB /boot hda5 141MB swap hda6 1GB
and Windows D:\ hda9 10GB
at the grub menu get a shell by pressing c root (hd0,4) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 initrd /initrd.img boot
Assuming that vmlinuz is or symlink to vmlinuz and initrd is in /boot and is named as abv.
if boot is successful edit menu.lst accordingly.
Boot unsuccessful./dev/hda7(/ for Ubuntu) had vmlinuz as symlink to boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic and a vmlinuz.old as symlink to boot/vmlinuz- 2.6.20-15-generic,both owned by root and 777 permissions. Similarly,initrd.img was symlink to boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic and initrd.img.old was symlink to boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic,again owned by root and 777 permissions. I tried root=/dev/hda7 and root=/dev/hda5 with root (hd0,4).I also deleted the above symlinks in chroot mode because my /boot partition is not automount and there's no use of symlinks which point to a file on a partition which is not mounted.Hopefully,that's not wrong. :P Anybody have other ideas?
Regards, Easwar PS:I was thinking of moving my /var/cache/apt/archives to my /home partition and fresh install w/o touching the /home partition in case nothing works out.Is that a good idea?
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Boot unsuccessful./dev/hda7(/ for Ubuntu) had vmlinuz as symlink to
boot/vmlinuz- 2.6.20-16-generic and a vmlinuz.old as symlink to boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic,both owned by root and 777 permissions. Similarly,initrd.img was symlink to boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic and initrd.img.old was symlink to boot/initrd.img- 2.6.20-15-generic,again owned by root and 777 permissions. I tried root=/dev/hda7 and root=/dev/hda5 with root (hd0,4).I also deleted the above symlinks in chroot mode because my /boot partition is not automount and there's no use of symlinks which point to a file on a partition which is not mounted.Hopefully,that's not wrong. :P Anybody have other ideas?
Nobody knows?I find that hard to believe!
Regards,
Easwar PS:I was thinking of moving my /var/cache/apt/archives to my /home partition and fresh install w/o touching the /home partition in case nothing works out.Is that a good idea?
And no thoughts about this either?
Regards, Easwar
On Thursday 09 Aug 2007 19:39:44 Easwar Hariharan wrote: <snip>
Please post `fdisk -l', grub.conf and `ls -l /boot' and fstab.
Easwar Hariharan wrote:
And no thoughts about this either?
If you could put up your query again in a simple way, point wise, it may get more replies. :) No need to give partition details, just explain your installation sequence for different OSes and what is not happening.
Every OS you install creates its own entry in its own /boot/grub/menu.lst So you only need to copy / paste the relevant text in the other menu.lst in the other partition, which is now used by Grub.
This site is usefull too. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows?act...
On Thursday 09 August 2007 19:39, Easwar Hariharan wrote:
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Boot unsuccessful./dev/hda7(/ for Ubuntu) had vmlinuz as symlink
Nobody knows?I find that hard to believe!
Have you tried the console method i posted? what was the result.
PS:I was thinking of moving my /var/cache/apt/archives to my /home partition and fresh install w/o touching the /home partition in case nothing works out.Is that a good idea?
I have yet to see an install which could not be booted with grub.
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