Help with grub.

[Qqmike]

Re: Help with grub.

while we are looking at this . . .
please check to so if that kernel is located in /boot

In Kubuntu, live CD, get into your HDD Kubuntu (Konqueror, "storage media") and see if you can locate the file
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic

[Qqmike]

Re: Help with grub.

hda1 is Linux and hda3 is Linux

perhaps hda1 is /home and hda3 is root (/)?

Is that a possible hang-up here?
so root should be
root (hd0,2)
?

[franklampard]

Re: Help with grub.

grub> root (hd0,2)

grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no

Error 15: File not found
not sure if that command is correct ? i just edited (hd0,0) to (hd0,2)


/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic is present also.

[Qqmike]

Re: Help with grub.

Well, it does seem that Kubuntu is actually on (hd0,0) and not on (hd0,2).
Hmmm.
This is either some trivial obvious thing (like a comma missing) or something really puzzling.
Timeout to think.
Maybe someone can spot something we have missed in fstab or menu.lst.
I'll re-check stuff, too.

Now, just to be clear, you said that
"/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic is present also."
and that is the full path to it, right? Starting at /boot.

[franklampard]

Re: Help with grub.

/media/hda1/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic is the full path

[Qqmike]

Re: Help with grub.

yeah, that's ok (/media/hda1 is just there because it's mounted in your live CD)

[dibl]

Re: Help with grub.

Any chance that the 2 hard drives were reversed in BIOS, or were there any changes in their BIOS setup?

[Qqmike]

Re: Help with grub.

Now, exactly what happens?

You turn on the PC, then . . .


(I notice you don't have a boot flag set on hda1 (or on hdb1, but it should be on hda1), but I can't imagine why that would give you the errors you are getting. (You can set the boot flag in GParted Live CD, Partition > Manage Flags > boot).

Once you got 22 -- no such partition. I hope your hard disk is OK.

Anyway, what happens?

[franklampard]

Re: Help with grub.

dibl - the one time i managed to boot using SuperGrubDisk i used the 'swap partitions and boot' option. but the drive has been repartitioned since then..

when booting i get something like -

loading grub 1.5
loading grub... (counter running down from 3-0)

the following screen that comes up error 15 in the top left corner
I'm just getting the Gparted livecd now

[dibl]

Re: Help with grub.

but the drive has been repartitioned since then..

This could be relevant to the problem. Could you open a Konsole and run

blkid

and post the output, please?

[franklampard]

Re: Help with grub.

/dev/hda1: UUID="19572df0-c05d-422f-bc3f-851e65c00ad7" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/hda2: TYPE="swap" UUID="7a284e22-95fd-45a4-a8b7-669d58d4d674"
/dev/hda3: UUID="bf45cb71-2a59-4098-a56e-c718b2548011" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/hdb1: UUID="1f71d2e3-466e-4383-98cb-50fae0fc227a" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

[Qqmike]

Re: Help with grub.

OK,
so GParted;

and do what dibl said (which you have done and is pending);

and another (obvious!) thing:

get the live CD
Konsole
sudo grub
grub> find /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic

and/or

grub> find /vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic

[Qqmike]

Re: Help with grub.

note the space after the word "find"

[franklampard]

Re: Help with grub.

Once you got 22 -- no such partition. I hope your hard disk is OK

i have hda1 + hdb1 both currently mounted in /media.. both work OK, so I'd assume there's nothing terminal to worry about.


grub> find /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic
(hd0,0)

grub> find /vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic

Error 15: File not found

still waiting on gparted...

[Snowhog]

Re: Help with grub.

Let's also run:

df -h -T

and post the results.