Hi Guys

This is real random. I recently installed Feisty Fawn onto my SCSI drive which is attached to an Adaptec SCSI card. When i try and boot the system it gets to grub fine and all the OSs are found alright but when i select one it says can't find partition.
Then when put in the installation cd and select boot from first disk and select an OS in grub it boots fine.
Was wondering if someone could explain why this happens and how to fix it.

Thanks in advance

GRUB is not seeing the OS's correctly, it is just reading the menu titles. You need to compare the menu.lst file with the actual partitioning.

Thanks for your quick reply. I have looked at both the /etc/fstab and menu.lst file and can't see anything wrong. I was hoping you could have a look and see if you can see any thing. The OSs are installed on /dev/sdb.


proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdb2 :
UUID=44ecef58-1eae-42c8-b72a-01410b003c55 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hda1 :
UUID=E494089A9408717A /media/hda1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_NZ.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=705F-912D /media/sda1 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
UUID=D074699274697BDA /media/sdb1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_NZ.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sdb3 :
UUID=787b7cd7-0d50-40fd-a3f1-f5417b27e546 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

menu.lst

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic
root (hd2,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=44ecef58-1eae-42c8-b72a-01410b003c55 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic
quiet
savedefault

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd2,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=44ecef58-1eae-42c8-b72a-01410b003c55 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic

title Ubuntu, memtest86+
root (hd2,1)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/hda1
title Windows NT/2000/XP (loader)
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
chainloader +1


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sdb1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd2,0)
savedefault
map (hd0) (hd2)
map (hd2) (hd0)
chainloader +1

Thanks in advance.

hda is a windows C: drive, formatted ntfs in one big partition.
hdb is an optical drive - guessing cd/dvd combo.

sda is an scsi drive (native scsi or SATA?) with one partition formatted fat32
sdb is an scsi drive with three partitions:
... sdb1 is windows drive
... sdb2 is ubuntu root
... sdb3 is ubuntu swap(?)

Normally, any IDE drive number is less than any SCSI drive number, although that is not true if you change the boot sequence by swapping IDE and SCSI drives in your BIOS. I'm guessing you have changed the boot sequence in bios, maybe you have installed GRUB to sdb0 (mbr)? Or something like that.

In this case
... sda1 will be (hd0,0)
... sdb1 will be (hd1,0)
... and you will have to use the map instruction in that windows entry.

Ubuntu uses debian tools to generate menu.lst ... try running "update-grub" and see what happens before you test this out.