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panorain

Member

Registered: 2013-03-04

Posts: 3

Boot Fails after grub loads

I would like to ask you a question about an issue I am having with Grub2 etc.

Here are some of the basic details to tell you about my system configuration.

paul@paul-desktop:~$ grub-probe -V

grub-probe (GRUB) 2.00-7ubuntu11

paul@paul-desktop:~$

hardware = dual Pata harddrives

/dev/sda  =  drive1

/dev/sdb =  drive2

paul@paul-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l

[sudo] password for paul:

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00063715

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sda1   *        2048   620947455   310472704   83  Linux

/dev/sda2       620949502   625141759     2096129    5  Extended

/dev/sda5       620949504   625141759     2096128   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders, total 78165360 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0xa8a8a8a8

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sdb1            2048    78163967    39080960   83  Linux

paul@paul-desktop:~$

I have been reading the:

GNU GRUB Manual 2.00~rc1

the grub2 menu detects (unknown Linux distribution) and advanced options states distribution as (SliTaz GNU/Linux (cooking) (Kernal vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz) (on /dev/sd)

Slitaz, was installed and setup on this machine as an only HD sole primary install with (ext3) filesystem

select (unknown linux distribution) hit enter

many errors:

init: Unable to create device .......

udevd[769}: mknod etc etc

Then States:

The disk drive for / is not ready yet or not present.

keys: Continue to wait, Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery

pressing M yields-

hub 1-0:1.0: over-current change on port7

init: Unable to create device: /dev/kmsg

Root filesystem check failed.

A maintenance shell will now be started.

Control-D will terminate this shell and reboot the system.

root@paul-desktop:~#

Rebooting-----  and pressing  S yields-

modprobes failing then finally

paul-desktop login: mountall: Plymouth command failed

mountall:disconnected from Plymouth

_

my harddisks are setup as cable select with the 320 GB on primary

                                                40 GB on secondary

I could reinstall SliTaz but I figured to try an ask I want to learn more about Grub so I figured I would ask then read more.

I have never setup a dual boot system before

There must be a way to repair it.

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Boot Fails after grub loads

paul@paul-desktop:~$ grub-probe -V

grub-probe (GRUB) 2.00-7ubuntu11

If you can boot into ubuntu/debian then post results from boot-info-script

$ sudo dpkg -i boot-info-script_0.61-1_all.deb

$ sudo boot-info-script

Open result.txt in editor,copy/paste contents into reply.

Otherwise you will need to post the grub.cfg, what versions of linux are installed to which drives and partitions.

Do both drives have bootloaders installed to there MBR ?

Is the slitaz install frugal or full ?