grub problem

jestinjoy · 09-17-2008, 12:13 PM

I am in the last stage of LFS....But when I tried to install it shows unknown partition. mount command shows the following result

Code:

linux-81rn:/home/joby # mount
/dev/sda9 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/lfs type ext3 (rw)
/dev on /mnt/lfs/dev type none (rw,bind)
devpts on /mnt/lfs/dev/pts type devpts (rw)
shm on /mnt/lfs/dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
proc on /mnt/lfs/proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /mnt/lfs/sys type sysfs (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/JESTIN JOY type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,flush,uid=1000,utf8,shortname=lower)

but the fdisk -l command shows like this

Code:

linux-81rn:/home/joby # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xff8783ae

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         852     6835200   27  Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2   *         852        4499    29296640    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            4500        9729    42009975    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            4500        5774    10241406    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6            5775        7049    10241406    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7            7050        8324    10241406    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8            8325        8454     1044193+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda9            8455        9729    10241406   83  Linux

my lfs grub command shows an unknown partition

Code:

grub> root (hd0,1)
 Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7

emclinux · 09-17-2008, 12:30 PM

try
root (hd0,8)

johnson_steve · 09-17-2008, 12:46 PM

it also couldn't hurt to use fdisk to change the partition type of sda1 to '83'. if you have your kernel on sda1. if it isn't and sda9 is / then just do what emclinux sugested.

jestinjoy · 09-17-2008, 12:48 PM

it does not work? It shows no stage 1........when it tried

Code:

setup (hd0)

hd0,8 is not which i want to add to grub ......I want sda1........when i used mount command it shows sda1 as ext3 and when i used fdisk it shows sda1 as unknown file system.............

jestinjoy · 09-17-2008, 01:01 PM

I have my lfs kernel at sda1 ......but when i tried hd0,0........it says unknown partition.......but mount command says it's a ext3 partition.

But when i tried fdisk -l command it shows sda1 as an unknown partition...

What does '83' mean......???

please help

johnson_steve · 09-17-2008, 01:20 PM

In your partition table sda1 type is set to '27' or 'Unknown' this is what grub reads; this is why grub says 'unknown partition'. '83' is the type ID for 'Linux'

do:

fdisk /dev/sda

press 't'

select the first partition

when it asks you what type put in '83' you can look at the list to see all the other IDs

press 'w' to write the table to disk.

reboot. you should no longer get 'unknown partition'.

jestinjoy · 09-17-2008, 01:43 PM

it works.........

but when i tried the command setup (hd0)
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it says "checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exist ....no
"checking if "/grub/stage1" exists .....no
error 2 bad file or directory type...........

though there exists a file stage1 in /boot/grub/