Weird H/D error

[marrandy]

Any ideas about this issue.

It seems to be more advanced than usual.  Maybe move it to here ?

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,76069.0.html

I don't get this deep so any ideas ?

[menotu]

Hi marrandy,

Lemme see if I can sort this in my own head  Apols if I'm reading this all wrong 

You installed a new kernel? (Which one  did you install?)

You then went to PCC (Configure Your Computer) System >> Boot

and changed to that kernel?

And you are now getting an error? Am I reading that correctly?

IF  you did install a new kernel theres no need to go to Config > Boot etc; as when you reboot the kernel you just installed will be the default.

Also, you can choose at boot time when the Grub (Boot list menu) appears on screen which kernel to use.

[marrandy]

Hi marrandy,

Lemme see if I can sort this in my own head   Apols if I'm reading this all wrong  

Unfortunately, you are reading it all wrong.  So perhaps I didn't phrase it all correctly.

Let me try again.


I have a Gateway notebook computer.  It has 2010 installed in a dual boot with windows Vista home.  The kernel = 2.6.32.11-pclos2.bfs

I decided to add a new kernel.  2.6.36.6-BFS.  I rebooted and expected it to be automagically entered into the boot menu.  It didn't show up.

I went into PCC (Configure Your Computer) System >> Boot.  When I click boot, to throws up a error window and aborts.  See attached screengrab.

You can see the message I get from cat /var/log/messages.   It mentions a sdb drive when I don't have one.  my drive for windows and pclinuxos = sda

Here is my menu.lst

cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0

title linux
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=61d58a94-5447-46c0-a2f6-58624b323670  resume=UUID=110bea0a-54f1-4db6-9ec0-9d4d400652ab splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=61d58a94-5447-46c0-a2f6-58624b323670  resume=UUID=110bea0a-54f1-4db6-9ec0-9d4d400652ab
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=61d58a94-5447-46c0-a2f6-58624b323670  failsafe
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

title windows
root (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1


mount
/dev/sda5 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/dev/sda7 on /home type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)


df
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5             9.7G  6.8G  2.4G  74% /
/dev/sda7              38G   30G  8.4G  78% /home
tmpfs                 1.5G     0  1.5G   0% /dev/shm


The first error I see is:-

is_geometry_valid_for_the_partition_table failed for (sda1, 20973567): 1023,254,62 vs 1023,138,48 with geometry 24321/255/63

Then it starts a series with this:-

ERROR: unknown device /dev/sdb5 (computed from (hd0,4)/boot/gfxmenu)

which is strange as my single/only drive = sda, not sdb.  NOTE: it talks about being computed from /boot/gfxmenu.

I've found some stuff.  In /boot/grub  cat device.map
(hd0) /dev/sdb
(hd1) /dev/sda


Also in /boot  ls -al
total 23316
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    4096 2010-07-14 12:28 ./
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root    4096 2010-07-14 12:28 ../
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root     440 2010-04-06 12:28 boot.backup.sda
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     440 2010-04-27 21:58 boot.backup.sdb

Where did this sdb come from and if I move/rename it, will it break my system and where did it come from ?