GRUB unable to mount partition
I have a 160 GB hard drive that I have created 3 partitions on, sda1 which is ext3, sda2 which is NTFS, and sda3 which is ext3 also. I have installed two different Linux distro's, Backtrack2 on sda1, and then Linux Mint on sda3. GRUB recognizes the NTFS partition and the Mint partition, both Windows and Mint boot fine. However, the Backtrack 2 partition was not recognized, so I added it myself to menu.lst:
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boot = /dev/sda Any help is greatly appreciated! :) |
Boot mint and mount the Backtrack partition. Look into the /boot folder (Backtrack) and get the name of the initrd file you find there. Then edit your grub config to show the same name.
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Splash.img
That's what I did, but there was only one initrd in the boot folder:
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tsnow@Mint-laptop:/Backtrack2/boot$ ls -a Thanks for the quick response :D |
The root direct locates the grub stage files - it needs to be the same in all stanzas. Try this
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title Backtrack 2 Means you have to think up names for your kernel images ...;) |
Error 17
Thanks syg00, I didn't know that! Okay, I have made the changes, and my grub menu.lst stanza for Backtrack looks like this:
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title Backtrack 2 |
At this point, I suggest re-installing Backtrack. Install the bootloader to the boot sector of the partition (not to the MBR). Pay careful attention to the partition selection and format options.
Then edit the grub config in Mint to read: title Backtrack2 root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 The chainloader option works just as well as specifying the kernel parameters and initrd. It works because the bootloader for that partition is completely installed in (hd0,0) boot sector, and you just pass the boot process over to that bootloader. |
Error 13
Okay, I tried the chainloader idea, and at least now it gives me a different error message. I made sure that lilo installed to /dev/sda1, and now upon attempting to boot with the menu.lst of:
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title Backtrack2 |
I'm begining to wonder if the partition housing backtrack is actually bootable. Have you tried using any "Rescue CDs" which can boot individual partitions ? Also what is your "fdisk -l" output like ?
UC |
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