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Dual boot on two drives - Help please [solved]


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I am trying to install Mandriva Linux One 2008 Spring on my second hard drive.

 

All goes well until I reboot and it goes straight into Vista, if I choose the second drive from the Bios boot menu I can get

a graphical grub boot screen but if I select the Linux option it hangs.

 

Vista boots fine from this screen.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

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Reinstalled and put Grub on the mbr of the default hd

 

Get grub menu now when booting but still failing with a whole host of errors when pressing Esc the last line being "booting has failed"

 

Is there anyway to capture these error messages as they scroll off the screen so quickly!

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You should install GRUB into the MBR of the default hd, I guess that would be the first.

Not necessary IMO, it would have been preferable to change the boot priority and modify the existing grub on the second hard drive, it can be done quickly and easily. However that is a non issue now since the o/p has overwritten the Windows bootloader on the first (physical) drive.

 

To the o/p

 

Are you able to boot one of the live cd's?

 

If so, can you please give the output of:

fdisk -l

and try to obtain a copy of the menu.lst file on your Mandriva install (you will no doubt have to mount the partition that contains the "boot" directory).

 

Any problems, just ask.

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As requested:

 

Disk /dev/sda: 150.0 GB, 150039945216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 18241 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xbe0099b2

  Device Boot	  Start		 End	  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *		   1	   18242   146521088	7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x90324935

  Device Boot	  Start		 End	  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *		   1		1019	 8185086   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2			1020	   14593   109033155	5  Extended
/dev/sdb5			1020		1528	 4088511   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6			1529	   14593   104944581   83  Linux

 

timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd1,0)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0

title linux
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=d55586eb-0d28-437b-9e62-a46df03b1f00  resume=/dev/mapper/nvidia_bhbafcde5 splash=silent acpi=ht vga=788
initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd.img

title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=d55586eb-0d28-437b-9e62-a46df03b1f00  resume=/dev/mapper/nvidia_bhbafcde5 acpi=ht
initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=d55586eb-0d28-437b-9e62-a46df03b1f00  failsafe
initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd.img

title windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

 

 

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Try changing this grub entry:

 

title linux
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=d55586eb-0d28-437b-9e62-a46df03b1f00 resume=/dev/mapper/nvidia_bhbafcde5 splash=silent acpi=ht vga=788
initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd.img

 

to this:

 

title linux
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=/dev/sdb1 resume=/dev/sdb5 splash=silent acpi=ht vga=788
initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd.img

 

It's not finding the root filesystem and may be having problems with the UUID designation. If that doesn't work, it's probably a hardware problem in detecting your sata controller and loading the appropriate modules to support it. Post your hardware specs, in particular which motherboard you are using and how you have sata setup in your bios(AHCI?).

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