drewk1 Posted August 24, 2008 Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted August 24, 2008 Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 You should install GRUB into the MBR of the default hd, I guess that would be the first. Why Linux doesn't start is a different issue. Try pressing ESC right after you selected Linux. And copy here the last messages you see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewk1 Posted August 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted August 24, 2008 Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewk1 Posted August 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 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 ----------------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 (edited) Have you tried using the failsafe option? Edited August 25, 2008 by Reiver_Fluffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewk1 Posted August 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 failsafe gives me this: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3254/279534...10843d2.jpg?v=0 Apologies for the dodgy screenshot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted August 26, 2008 Report Share Posted August 26, 2008 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?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewk1 Posted September 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 Thanks all for the input but I have now given up with Mandriva as I was spending far too much time with no success. I have now installed Ubuntu which worked first time. Thanks again all those who took the time to reply to my plea for help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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