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Old 11-25-2007, 02:48 PM   #1
Biegel
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pclinuxos 2007 after install Windows starts


Hi everyone,

I installed pclinuxos but it seems the grub loader doesn't exist. When I restart only windows starts like nothing else would be there.

I have 2 physical hard drives.
The one has windows and on the other one I did the partitions for linux.
What did I do wrong? Do I need to install it on the drive with Windows on it?
The only other error I got during installation was that the sound card has no suitable driver.
I would appreciate any help on this.

Lorenz Biegel
 
Old 11-25-2007, 05:09 PM   #2
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Can you recall what options you selected for installing GRUB? With 2 drives, you would have to be sure that GRUB got onto the one that is seen as #1 by the BIOS.

To install GRUB, boot up from you PCLOS CD, open a terminal, and do "fdisk -l". This tells you all of your drive and partition layout. Let's assume you have 2 IDE drives, with Windows on the first. You might see (paraphrased):
hda
hda1---NTFS (Windows

hdb:
hdb1---Linux /
hdb2---Linux swap

To install GRUB, we need to know the location of /boot. In the above example, it is hdb1 ==> (hd1,0) in grubspeak.

grub #opens a grub shell
root (hd1,0) #points grub installer to location of /boot
setup (hd0) #installs GRUB to to mbr of the first drive (hda)

Now reboot and you should see the GRUB menu.

If in doubt, post the results of "fdisk -l".
 
Old 11-26-2007, 03:40 AM   #3
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Can you recall what options you selected for installing GRUB? With 2 drives, you would have to be sure that GRUB got onto the one that is seen as #1 by the BIOS.

To install GRUB, boot up from you PCLOS CD, open a terminal, and do "fdisk -l". This tells you all of your drive and partition layout. Let's assume you have 2 IDE drives, with Windows on the first. You might see (paraphrased):
hda
hda1---NTFS (Windows

hdb:
hdb1---Linux /
hdb2---Linux swap

To install GRUB, we need to know the location of /boot. In the above example, it is hdb1 ==> (hd1,0) in grubspeak.

grub #opens a grub shell
root (hd1,0) #points grub installer to location of /boot
setup (hd0) #installs GRUB to to mbr of the first drive (hda)

Now reboot and you should see the GRUB menu.

If in doubt, post the results of "fdisk -l".
Hello Pixellany,
thank you for the help so far. I looked at it and I am in doubt. So here is the fdisk -l result:

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 116301 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 61025 30756411 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 61025 116296 27856710 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1 2790 1405624+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 2790 33150 15301881 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 33151 61025 14048811 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 40.9 GB, 40982151168 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 1023 8217216 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb2 * 1024 3573 20482875 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb3 3574 4982 11317792+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Again thanks for the help.
Lorenz Biegel
 
Old 11-28-2007, 12:56 AM   #4
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XP First HD, Linux Ubuntu on 2nd

I have the same issue. I had Ubuntu CE (7.04) on one hard drive. I, unplugged that hard drive, then installed a second hard drive identical to the first and installed XP Home on it. Then I put the XP drive back in as my Primary and Ubuntu as my Secondary, but lost my ability to boot into the Ubuntu. After reading your post, I have these results:

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

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 9728 78140128+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

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

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 9541 76638051 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 9542 9729 1510110 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 9542 9729 1510078+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sda: 512 MB, 512483328 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 993 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

When I enter Grub #shell command
root (hd1,0) = it tells me the drive does not exist.
If I use root (hd0,0), then Setup (hd0), it tells me Grub has been loaded.
When I restart booting into IDE 0, I get a Error 17,
If I boot into IDE 1, I get Windows, but no GRUB

Just how much of an idiot am I? Thanks...

Last edited by MikRose; 11-28-2007 at 12:58 AM. Reason: added a step
 
Old 11-28-2007, 01:04 AM   #5
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You're not an idiot, Mik. You got Linux installed after all. You appear to be able to read on a fourth grade level, so that's better than approximately 97.3% of Americans.

Read Pixellany's website on grub, it's in his signature. You can learn a lot from it. Use Google too, it knows ALL. It even can crack hash passwords for you.

Regards,

Brandon
 
  


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