Please help asap w/ GRUB

daitheflu08 · 03-22-2008, 12:18 AM

Let me break it all down for you.

Yesterday I formatted both drives I have let's call them by their volumes, 40, 110, and later 750 (it hasn't arrived yet).

As far as I know there was no data on both of them. I installed Linux on the 110 today. This went smoothly using the whole disk for the operating system.

The new hard drive arrived. So I put windows Vista on the 750. I could no longer boot on the 110. So I decided (without thinking too much about it) that Linux would put a good bootloader up and I can work with both systems at my will.

I made a partition in the 750 which split the drive down the middle using Vista.

I used Guided installation with available free space with linux ubuntu.

Now somewhere in this mess it left the 40 gig on the bootloader screen. So I took it off. But when I went to unhook it, it gave me an error when it tried to load Grub either 21 or 23.

I am at a loss as to what to do, I have already used vista to wipe out this drives partitions and data.

Please help.

Thanks

daitheflu08 · 03-22-2008, 12:19 AM

It's not the 40 gig that is the problem it's the 110, just a typo.

syg00 · 03-22-2008, 12:51 AM

Leave all the drives in - boot the Ubuntu liveCD, and from a terminal do this and post all the output.

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

daitheflu08 · 03-22-2008, 03:45 AM

Okay I listed the partitions basically what I have is the main 750 with 300 on Vista 300 on Linuz

and then I have

An old version of linux boot still on the 110 or 40 with a partition on it too.

I couldn't find a way to do anything with these findings.

If anything I'd like to keep both the 110 and 40 on here for storage, but I want them to be clean so vista can dump on them.

syg00 · 03-22-2008, 03:58 AM

What part of

Quote:

post all the output

don't you understand ???.

daitheflu08 · 03-22-2008, 12:19 PM

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf384f384

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 13996 14593 4803435 5 Extended

Disk /dev/sdb: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x74063980

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 48479 389400576 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 * 48480 90444 337083862+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 90445 91201 6080602+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 90445 91201 6080571 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/hdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x353d353d

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 4865 39078081 7 HPFS/NTFS
daniel@daniel-desktop:~$

syg00 · 03-22-2008, 07:40 PM

From the liveCD try this

Code:

sudo grub
find /boot/grub/stage1 <<<=== try /grub/stage1 if you get "File not found"
 .... take note of what it returns - maybe (hd1,1)
root <enter_what_was_returned>   e.g. root (hd1,1)
setup(hd0)
quit

You may need to clean up menu.lst, but hopefully should boot after this.