Re: [Bug-grub] Not able to boot

[Jochen Hoenicke]

On Jun 6, Vidya Kulkarni wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I tried the commands given by you.
> 
> After execution of the command
> 
> root ( hd0,0) the message is following:
>    Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xc

Seems that (hd0,0) is your Windows/DOS partition.  You can boot
Windows with 

root (hd0,0) 
chainloader +1 
boot

To find the location of your linux installation these commands may be
useful:

find /vmlinuz   or find /boot/vmlinuz or find /zImage

This command looks on all partitions for the file /vmlinuz (the usual
name of the linux kernel) and prints the partition where it was found.

The command 

geometry (hd0)

gives you a list of all your partition, there should be at least one
ext2 or reiserfs partition, where linux resides.  If linux is one the
second hard disk use (hd1) instead.

After you select the right partition with "root (hdx,y)" you can use
tab-expansion to list the files there.  Enter "kernel /" and press
tab and you should see the files in the root directory. 

> After exceuting kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro

The root= parameter tells the linux kernel where to find its root
partition.  So if linux is on (hd0,2) it's /dev/hda3, if linux is on
(hd1,2) it's /dev/hdb3.  If you have scsi disks it's /dev/sda3 resp
/dev/sdb3.

  Jochen