Booting problem in Gentoo

Hubmasterflex · 03-18-2006, 02:31 PM

I have two hard drives in my system. When I installed Gentoo 2006.0, it was installed under a master hard drive. However, since I also installed Windows under the master jumper on another hard drive, it won't load while it is in slave. The only way I could fix that was to make my Gentoo hard drive slave while keeping my Windows drive master. However, since I installed Gentoo under master, the root, filesystem and swap are all located under /dev/hda. Since the hard drive is now slave, it should be /dev/hdb. Therefore, when Gentoo tries to load the filesystem, this occurs:

fsck.ext3 No such device or address while trying to open /dev/hda3
Possibly non-existent or swap device?
Filesystem coun't be fixed

Any suggestions so that I could fix this?

alunduil · 03-18-2006, 03:25 PM

Load in from a LiveCD such as Knoppix, and edit the fstab file. Should do the trick.

Regards,

Alunduil

dmartins · 03-18-2006, 06:11 PM

If you are using GRUB as your bootloader, you could switch the drive with Gentoo back to master and the windows drive back to slave. Boot gentoo, and edit your /boot/grub/grub.conf (or menu.1st) and add a couple of lines to the windows section to trick windows into thinking it's on the master drive.. something like:

Code:

title=Windows
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

This should allow you to boot windows when it is on the slave drive.

I don't know if this can be done with LILO