Grub not working

[Tony Pursell]

On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 14:55 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
> 
> 
> Thought I delay posting this so that you can get the other things out of 
> the way first.
> 
> On 05/06/2011 10:36 AM, Tom H wrote:
> > The only thing that Tom can say about the above is that he doesn't
> > think that it's possible to map a drive to a partition and vice versa
> 
> Generally, there is *no need* to do mapping on a single disk and will 
> boot well without it. But, it is *possible* to do mapping with it.
> Try it out for a chainloaded OS. (I don't have Wins anymore). It should 
> boot okay. The advantages for doing this on a single hard disk, and I am 
> not quite sure about it, is that it's like "--force" to ensure 
> 'compliance', which in Dave's case might warrant.
> 
> 
> > (there's also no "(hd0,0)" partition in grub2 AFAIK).
> 
> Yes, positively there is no (hd0,0), that's why I pointed this out.
> 
> > I feel more strongly about installing grub2 to sda9
> 
> er...my thinking's not so, but give it a go as I have nothing better
> Have to make sure he can boot to ubuntu after that (sda9).
> 
> [Other than saving wins data and reinstalling wins, and he would have 
> completed by now if he had started on it.]
> 
> Regards - Goh Lip
> 

Hi Dave, Tom, Goh Lip

Maybe we need to get back to basics a bit to try and boot ME.  Have a
look at

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Chain_002dloading

in the Grub 2 manual. 

Grub 2 differs from Grub Legacy in two main ways. First it is modular
(like modern kernels) so you must load the necessary modules (these are
all in /boot/grub) for the situation and secondly the drive numbering is
different.

So in the above example there is a module called 'chain' loaded.  Maybe
this is required for all chainloader situations.  Unfortunately the
manual does not say what each module does.

Also in the example the first partition on the first drive is (hd0,1).

I have sent an email to help-grub at gnu.org to ask if Grub 2 will boot ME.

Tony