Am Sonntag, 28. Januar 2007 20:48 schrieb charles@daphatbell.com:
I am still having problems with this for some reason(s). I actually installed Mandriva this morning, got the bootloader to install and was able to boot to it without having to use the DVD disc. I did have a little trouble, but it was simple to fix because the problem was obvious. It was pointing to a non-existant swap partition. I changed what people had suggested yesterday in the menu.ist file and even edited the grub.conf file, but no matter what I did, the error still came up and although I changed the device from sda,7 to something else, it would put it back.
The only reference to anything about hd0,0 is on the line for booting into windows. it says: "rootnoverify (hd0,0)" and the entry below it says: "chainloader (hd0,0)+1"
I'm at a loss here. I thought I understood what M Harris was telling me yesterday but I'm not sure anymore. :-(
the drive itself is sda0
It has a primary partition (sda1), then a extended partition with two logical partitions (NTFS) then the swap partition, the root partition and the home partition.
The extended partition is sda2 which I understand is always the case with an extended partition. So the first (logical) partition would be sda5, the second logical partition would be sda6, the swap partition is sda7, the root partition is sda8 and the home partition is sda9. This is how Mandriva saw it as well. Now counting the partitions is what I think is confusing me. As far as the HD0,0) is concerned. Would it be like the following? sda1 = hd0,1 or 0? How about the extended partition? would sda2 become hd0,1 or 2? and so forth?
/dev/sda1 would become (hd0,0), /dev/sda2 would become (hd0,1) and so forth. /dev/sdb3 would then become (hd1,2) for instance. The last letter in sd{a,b,c,...} respectively is represented by hd{0,1,2,..}. Analogical the partition number sda{1,2,3,...} corresponds to hd0,{0,1,2,..}.
well, it's almost noon and I'm getting breakfast ready! :-O Hopefully someone can make sense of this. Many Thanks!
-- Alex