Description of problem: I was using an 80 gig drive, which was partitioned 70 gig for my NTFS Windows partition and 10 gig for my new Linux partition. I completed the graphical installation and rebooted, and when the Grub screen came on I selected my Windows partition. It just said something about nonroot and then it said something about chainloader on the next line. I had to reboot into Linux and edit my /etc/grub.conf so it said hd0 instead of hd1. I rebooted and everything worked fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do a full graphical install of Phoebe and use grub on the MBR 2. Reboot 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Did you have another FAT/NTFS partition on the first hard drive that got detected instead? We detect the first FAT/NTFS partition that looks bootable and guess that it is the "DOS" partition.
No, I don't have any other FAT32/NTFS partitions on that drive. Also, and this is just a suggestion, why not make the "DOS" partition be displayed as Windows by default? Anyways, here is my hard drive setup: Master: 70 Gig NTFS Partition with Windows XP, 10 Gig Linux Slave: 80 Gig FAT32 drive (used for storing media) Below is information I copied from Partition Magic 7.0. I'm not sure that it will help you in any way, but I figured it couldn't hurt... PowerQuest PartitionInfo 7.0 -- Windows NT/2000 Version Date Generated: 12/29/02 11:29:36 Copyright (c)1994-2001, PowerQuest Corporation Permission is granted for this utility to be freely copied so long as it is not modified in any way. All other rights are reserved. PowerQuest, makers of PartitionMagic(r), Drive Image(tm), and DriveCopy(tm), can be reached at: Voice: 801-437-8900 Fax: 801-226-8941 Web site: http://support.powerquest.com/support.html E-mail: magic General System Information: Total Physical Memory (bytes): 804,769,792 Used Physical Memory: (bytes): 306,143,232 Maximum Page File Size: (bytes): 1,969,758,208 Current Page File Size: (bytes): 273,330,176 =========================================================================================================== Disk Geometry Information for Disk 1: 10011 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63 Sectors/Track System PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head Sect StartSect NumSects =========================================================================================================== 0 0 80 0 1 1 07 1023 254 63 63 140,343,777 Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values are: 0 0 80 0 1 1 07 8735 254 63 63 140343777 0 1 00 1023 254 63 83 1023 254 63 140,343,840 208,845 Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values are: 0 1 00 8736 0 1 83 8748 254 63 140343840 208845 SWAPSPACE2 0 2 00 1023 254 63 82 1023 254 63 140,552,685 3,132,675 Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values are: 0 2 00 8749 0 1 82 8943 254 63 140552685 3132675 0 3 00 1023 254 63 0F 1023 254 63 143,685,360 17,141,355 Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values are: 0 3 00 8944 0 1 0F 10010 254 63 143685360 17141355 143,685,360 0 00 1023 254 63 83 1023 254 63 143,685,423 17,141,292 Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values are: 143685360 0 00 8944 1 1 83 10010 254 63 143685423 17141292 =========================================================================================================== Disk Geometry Information for Disk 2: 10011 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63 Sectors/Track System PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head Sect StartSect NumSects =========================================================================================================== SECONDARY 0 0 80 0 1 1 0C 1023 254 63 63 160,826,652 Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values are: 0 0 80 0 1 1 0C 10010 254 63 63 160826652 =========================================================================================================== Partition Information for Disk 1: 78,528.7 Megabytes Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect TotalSects UsedSects FreeSects =========================================================================================================== C: NTFS Pri,Boot 68,527.2 0 0 63 140,343,777 140,343,777 0 Linux Ext2 Pri 101.10 0 1 140,343,840 208,845 208,845 0 *:SWAPSPACE2 Linux Swap Pri 1,529.6 0 2 140,552,685 3,132,675 3,132,675 0 ExtendedX Pri 8,369.8 0 3 143,685,360 17,141,355 17,141,355 0 EPBR Log 8,369.8 None -- 143,685,360 17,141,355 17,141,355 0 Linux Ext2 Log 8,369.8 143,685,360 0 143,685,423 17,141,292 17,141,292 0 =========================================================================================================== Partition Information for Disk 2: 78,528.7 Megabytes Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect TotalSects UsedSects FreeSects =========================================================================================================== D:SECONDARY FAT32X Pri,Boot 78,528.6 0 0 63 160,826,652 160,826,652 0 =========================================================================================================== Boot Record for drive C: (Drive: 1, Starting sector: 63, Type: NTFS) =========================================================================================================== 1. Jump: EB 52 90 2. OEM Name: NTFS 3. Bytes per Sector: 512 4. Sectors per Cluster: 8 5. Reserved Sectors: 0 6. Number of FATs: 0 7. Root Dir Entries: 0 8. Total Sectors: 0 9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8 10. Sectors per FAT: 0 11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F) 12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF) 13. Hidden Sectors: 63 (0x3F) 14. Total Sectors (>32MB): 0 (0x0) 15. Unused: 0x80008000 16. Total NTFS Sectors: 140343776 17. MFT Start Cluster: 786432 18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 10050661 19. Clusters per FRS: 246 20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1 21. Serial Number: 0x36DCA244DCA1FDED 22. Checksum: 0 (0x0) 23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55 =========================================================================================================== Boot Record for drive *: (Drive: 1, Starting sector: 140,343,840, Type: Ext-2) =========================================================================================================== Ext-2 file system super block: 1. Inodes count: 26208 2. Blocks count: 104422 3. Reserved blocks count: 5221 4. Free blocks count: 92052 5. First data block: 1 6. Logical block size: 0 7. Logical fragment size: 0 8. Blocks/group: 8192 9. Fragments/group: 8192 10. Inodes/group: 2016 11. Mount time: 0x3E0D32A4 12. Last write time: 0x3E0D3568 13. Mount count: 2 14. Max. mount count: -1 15. Magic number: EF53 16. State: 0x0001 17. Error behavior: 0x0001 18. Minor revision level: 0 19. Last check time: 0x3E0CD95D 20. Max. time bet. checks: 0 21. Creator oper. system: 0 22. Major revision level: 1 23. Reserved block def. UID:0x0000 24. Reserved block def. GID:0x0000 =========================================================================================================== Boot Record for drive *: (Drive: 1, Starting sector: 143,685,423, Type: Ext-2) =========================================================================================================== Ext-2 file system super block: 1. Inodes count: 1072896 2. Blocks count: 2142661 3. Reserved blocks count: 107133 4. Free blocks count: 972619 5. First data block: 0 6. Logical block size: 2 7. Logical fragment size: 2 8. Blocks/group: 32768 9. Fragments/group: 32768 10. Inodes/group: 16256 11. Mount time: 0x3E0D3298 12. Last write time: 0x3E0D356A 13. Mount count: 2 14. Max. mount count: -1 15. Magic number: EF53 16. State: 0x0001 17. Error behavior: 0x0001 18. Minor revision level: 0 19. Last check time: 0x3E0CD954 20. Max. time bet. checks: 0 21. Creator oper. system: 0 22. Major revision level: 1 23. Reserved block def. UID:0x0000 24. Reserved block def. GID:0x0000 =========================================================================================================== Boot Record for drive D: (Drive: 2, Starting sector: 63, Type: FAT32) =========================================================================================================== 1. Jump: EB 58 90 2. OEM Name: MSWIN4.1 3. Bytes per Sector: 512 4. Sectors per Cluster: 64 5. Reserved Sectors: 38 6. Number of FAT's: 2 7. Reserved: 0x0000 8. Reserved: 0x0000 9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8 10. Sectors per FAT: 0 11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F) 12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF) 13. Hidden Sectors: 63 (0x3F) 14. Big Total Sectors: 160826652 (0x996051C) 15. Big Sectors per FAT: 19629 16. Extended Flags: 0x0000 17. FS Version: 0 18. First Cluster of Root: 2 (0x2) 19. FS Info Sector: 1 20. Backup Boot Sector: 6 21. Reserved: 000000000000000000000000 22. Drive ID: 0x80 23. Reserved for NT: 0x00 24. Extended Boot Sig: 0x29 25. Serial Number: 0x3D10D615 26. Volume Name: SECONDARY 27. File System Type: FAT32 28. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
Can you give the output of fdisk -l on both drives as well as the output of running parted and typing print at the parted prompt?
I wish I could do that for you, unfortunately my primary Linux machine died on me and I had to put 8.0 on this machine (needed the stability). Should I install Phoebe in the next week or so, I will definately do that for you.
The output from under 8.0 should be mostly the same... there's one variation, but I'll have a better idea if it matters or not once I see the basics.
[root@cdcustom-linux root]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 10011 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 8736 70171888+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 8737 8749 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 8750 8944 1566337+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 8945 10011 8570677+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 8945 10011 8570646 83 Linux Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 10011 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 10011 80413326 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) [root@cdcustom-linux root]# parted GNU Parted 1.4.24 Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Using /dev/hda Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is 10011/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M. (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-78533.437 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 68527.265 primary ntfs boot 2 68527.266 68629.240 primary ext3 3 68629.241 70158.867 primary linux-swap 4 70158.867 78528.669 extended lba 5 70158.898 78528.669 logical ext3 (parted)
Fixed in CVS. Update disk for 8.0.93 phoebe at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/phoebe-update.img
I'm going through Bugzilla closing some bugs that have been marked as Modified for some period of time. I believe that most of these issues have been fixed, so I'm resolving these bugs as Rawhide. If the bug you are seeing still exists, please reopen this report and mark it as Reopened.