Re: [Bug-grub] Not able to boot

[Vidya Kulkarni]

Thank you very much for the prompt reply. I will try everything that you
have mentioned in your email and inform you about it.
Thanks once again.
Vidya Kulkarni


On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:

> 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
>