Sid Boyce wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2007/08/29 04:25 (GMT+0100) Sid Boyce apparently typed:
I had a failing IDE HD as /dev/sda, so I installed 10.3 on a new SATA drive /dev/sdb and was booting from it until I removed /dev/sda. The SATA drive is now /dev/sda, but it won't boot, just the cursor on the top of the screen. Booted from DVD to rescue, altered fstab and menu.lst was changed from (hd1,0) to (hd0,0), still won't boot and grub commands give unrecognised device string errors. menu.lst now says gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message No luck.
Rescue isn't as easy as it used to be. The solution in http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2007-04/msg00048.html might be your solution.
Did all that, /dev/disk/by-* tree is sound, looked up "info grub" and "info grub-install", nothing makes any sense. # grub-install /dev/sda1 # grub-install /dev/sda # grub-install (hd0) # grub-install (hd0,0) grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,0) and other combinations using /dev/sda and /de/sda1 all give "Error 12: Invalid device requested". The odd thing is that when I had the IDE drive installed (/dev/sda) with the SATA (/dev/sdb), it booted off /dev/sdb, after removing the IDE drive, it refused to boot. "fdisk -l /dev/sda" shows the bootable flag on /dev/sda1. I have / and a swap partition on the drive. I can't think of any incantation that will make grub do anything. /dev/disk/by-id: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 240 Aug 29 11:13 ./ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 Aug 29 12:02 ../ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 29 11:14 ata-WDC_WD3200AAKS-22SBA0_WD-WCAPZ1455963 -> ../../sda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 ata-WDC_WD3200AAKS-22SBA0_WD-WCAPZ1455963-part1 -> ../../sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 ata-WDC_WD3200AAKS-22SBA0_WD-WCAPZ1455963-part2 -> ../../sda2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 29 11:14 edd-int13_dev80 -> ../../sda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 edd-int13_dev80-part1 -> ../../sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 edd-int13_dev80-part2 -> ../../sda2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 29 11:14 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCAPZ1455963 -> ../../sda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCAPZ1455963-part1 -> ../../sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCAPZ1455963-part2 -> ../../sda2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 29 11:14 usb-HP_Photosmart_C4180_MY6CMH72JX04J7-0:0 -> ../../sdb
/dev/disk/by-path: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 140 Aug 29 11:13 ./ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 Aug 29 12:02 ../ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 29 11:14 pci-0000:00:02.1-usb-0:2.3:1.3-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sdb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 29 11:14 pci-0000:00:04.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 29 11:14 pci-0000:00:05.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 pci-0000:00:05.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1 -> ../../sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 pci-0000:00:05.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part2 -> ../../sda2
/dev/disk/by-uuid: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Aug 29 11:13 ./ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 Aug 29 12:02 ../ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 85d24d84-6169-4acd-8b05-0d4283199835 -> ../../sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 e99d0381-afb9-4678-93bb-14f9afd27247 -> ../../sda2
Regards Sid.
The only way I could recover successfully in a similar situation is described here. Seems grub as a program itself gets its device info directly from the partition table only: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows?action=show&redirect=RecoverGrub Regards, FMF --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org