Installation Not Showing. Resolved

[wavemaker]

Gooday all. I am back after a short time faffing about on the dark-side. I saw that PCLOS 2010 was available and downloaded it last night.  I kicked the installation into gear this morning and everything appeared to go just fine. When I restarted it just went straight to windoze7. I have done this a few times before and got it right so I cant figure out where I went wrong. Anyhoo could one of you kind folk point me to my error. I am conversant to a degree with using the terminal. Any help would be appreciated. James.

[Old-Polack]

Gooday all. I am back after a short time faffing about on the dark-side. I saw that PCLOS 2010 was available and downloaded it last night.  I kicked the installation into gear this morning and everything appeared to go just fine. When I restarted it just went straight to windoze7. I have done this a few times before and got it right so I cant figure out where I went wrong. Anyhoo could one of you kind folk point me to my error. I am conversant to a degree with using the terminal. Any help would be appreciated. James.

How many hard drives do you have, and where did you install the grub first stage?

[wavemaker]

Gooday OP and thanks for looking at my post. Currently 1 HD in the box and a WD 1TB external in 2 partitions. I think I just followed the prompts during installation so that's where it would be. In the past I have done that and I get a grub to boot from with the windoze partition being the default. Thanks again.

[Old-Polack]

Gooday OP and thanks for looking at my post. Currently 1 HD in the box and a WD 1TB external in 2 partitions. I think I just followed the prompts during installation so that's where it would be. In the past I have done that and I get a grub to boot from with the windoze partition being the default. Thanks again.

You could try a grub native install to reinstall grub to the MBR, which is where you want it.

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,69353.msg570256.html#msg570256

[wavemaker]

Thanks heaps OP, As I see it, I am working in Win7, so I don't have a terminal to go to but can go to command line in Win7. Is what you are suggesting done from a live disk? I'm a bit confused but I know the fog will clear.

[Old-Polack]

Thanks heaps OP, As I see it, I am working in Win7, so I don't have a terminal to go to but can go to command line in Win7. Is what you are suggesting done from a live disk? I'm a bit confused but I know the fog will clear.

Yes, from the liveCD, logged in as root, in a terminal. These are Linux tools, so not on Win7. You need a running Linux system to use them, and the liveCD qualifies as that.

[wavemaker]

Thanks, this is what I did. Am I close.


    GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

 [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
   lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
   completions of a device/filename. ]

grub> find /boot/grub/stage2
 (hd0,4)
 (hd1,4)

grub> root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7

grub>  setup (hd0)

Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition

grub> find /boot/grub/stage2

[Old-Polack]

Thanks, this is what I did. Am I close.


    GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

 [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
   lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
   completions of a device/filename. ]

grub> find /boot/grub/stage2
 (hd0,4)
 (hd1,4)

grub> root (hd0,0)    <-- This is your Windows partition.
 Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7

grub>  setup (hd0)

Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition

grub> find /boot/grub/stage2

The root line has to be one of the two locations from the find results. Why would you go through the trouble to locate the two root partitions with the grub files, then choose a partition that isn't either when telling grub which one to use as the master grub partition? You told grub your root partition is your Windows partition.

According to the grub find command, you have an installation on the internal drive and the external drive. For your purpose root is (hd0,4). The setup line is correct.

You don't need to run find again; you've already found the proper partition. Just run;

grub> root (hd0,4)

grub> setup (hd0)

After the success is reported;

grub> quit

to return you to the prompt.

[root@localhost ~]#

You should then close the terminal, and reboot. Be sure to remove the liveCD when told to. The boot menu should offer a choice of Linux or Windows.

Post your results.

[wavemaker]

I have had one go at this and was told at reboot that there was an error. 15c i think. I will pay closer attention this time. I am posting what I have done to this point, now I am going to reboot.
  GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

 [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
   lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
   completions of a device/filename. ]

grub> root (hd0,4)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

grub> setup (hd0)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"...  20 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
 Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+20 p (hd0,4)/boot/grub/stage2
/boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
Done.

grub>

As close as I can get it says
 Grub Loading stage 1.5
hd1.4/boot-not found
gfxmenu not found
And then offers a small window with:-
linux
linux- nonfb
fail safe
windows
windows1

[wavemaker]

Oh well. 5  attempts and same result. Need to go to bed, big day tomorrow. Thanks for the help again OP.

[Old-Polack]

I have had one go at this and was told at reboot that there was an error. 15c i think. I will pay closer attention this time. I am posting what I have done to this point, now I am going to reboot.
  GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

 [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
   lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
   completions of a device/filename. ]

grub> root (hd0,4)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

grub> setup (hd0)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"...  20 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
 Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+20 p (hd0,4)/boot/grub/stage2
/boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
Done.

grub>

As close as I can get it says
 Grub Loading stage 1.5
hd1.4/boot-not found
gfxmenu not found
And then offers a small window with:-
linux
linux- nonfb
fail safe
windows
windows1

Post the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst from the /dev/sda5 partition.

[wavemaker]

Gooday OP. How do I do that?

[Old-Polack]

Gooday OP. How do I do that?

Open a root terminal and at the prompt;

[root@localhost ~]# cat /boot/grub/menu.lst                    <Enter>

Use copy/paste to copy the results in the terminal to paste into your next reply.

[wavemaker]

[root@localhost root]# cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
cat: /boot/grub/menu.lst: No such file or directory
[root@localhost root]#

[Old-Polack]

[root@localhost root]# cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
cat: /boot/grub/menu.lst: No such file or directory
[root@localhost root]#

Are you posting from the liveCD? If so you need to mount the partition with your installation somewhere, then add the mount point to the path.

Example:

[root@localhost root]# mkdir /here          <Enter>

[root@localhost root]# mount /dev/<whatever> /here             <Enter>

[root@localhost root]# cat /here/boot/grub/menu.lst               <Enter>

Replace <whatever> with the proper designation for your installation's / partition. If you installed to /dev/sda5 <whatever> would be sda5