[Gllug] Still unable to boot using grub on Mbr
john gennard
joney at clara.co.uk
Tue Jan 23 17:24:53 UTC 2007
I've spent over two weeks trying to solve this problem.
Yesterday, I concluded the problem was with my Maxtor
Hard Drive so I spent hours running the PowerMax software -
however,it gave the drive a clean bill of health.
Can anyone tell me if I'm falling foul of trying to boot
from outside a cylinder limited (googling has confused me
as to what the limit now is.
The drive has 238,216 cylinders, 16 heads and 63 sectors/tracks.
A cylinder is described as 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes.
Hda1 (Wn2000) is 1 - 38752
Hda2 (Debian) is 38753 - 79442
Hda3 (Ubuntu) is 79449 - 118193 *
Hda5 (Swap) is 118193 - 120137
* Parted in Ubuntu seems to have 'cocked up' the
partition I created in Linux fdisk, and has left
3.3 Mb it describes as 'unusable' between Hda2
and Hda3.
When Ubuntu put Grub on the Mbr nothing happens on boot, and
I cannot reach or boot it even from a Grub prompt. When Debian,
earlier, had installed Grub on the Mbr, it also wouldn't boot,
but I could and still can boot it from a Grub prompt.
Any help, please.
John.
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