No bootable partition after Ubuntu install
Doctor Who
whodoctor at gmail.com
Sat Apr 5 22:13:17 UTC 2008
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/04/2008, Doctor Who <whodoctor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks...that made the drive bootable, but it still appears there's
> > nothing *on* the drive to boot. Do I need to run 'grub-install' after
> > this?
> >
>
> I don't think so, but it won't hurt. Are you sure that grub is
> pointing to the right partition? Grub starts to count from 0, so (for
> example) sda1 is (0,0).
>
>
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
OK...let me show what I have and maybe that will help:
desktop:/home/who # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfdb8211d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 60051 482359626 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 60052 60801 6024375 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 60052 60801 6024343+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf18da1dc
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 10199 81923436 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 * 10200 12749 20482875 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 12750 15299 20482875 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 15300 60801 365494815 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0007a82a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 2611 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 2612 2873 2104515 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc3 2874 3004 1052257+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc4 3005 60801 464254402+ 8e Linux LVM
OK...so /dev/sda is where Ubuntu is installed. On /dev/sdb I have
both Vista and Fedora and on /dev/sdc I have openSUSE. I'm able to
boot to all of these, but not Ubuntu. Also, from the grub prompt I
show:
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
find /boot/grub/stage1
(hd1,1)
(hd2,0)
grub>
So notice that nothing shows for /dev/sda1 (hd0,0)
What do I need to do to 'fix' this?
Thanks.
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