Grub Hard Disk Error Dsl
Today's Posts Advanced Search Find the answer to your Linux question: Entire Site Articles Downloads Forums Linux Hosting Forum GNU Linux Zone Installation GRUB HARD DISK ERROR issue If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. ** If you are logged in, most ads will not be displayed. ** Linuxforums now supports the Tapatalk app for your mobile device. Results 1 to 3 of 3 Thread: GRUB HARD DISK ERROR issue Thread Tools Show Printable Version Email this Page… Subscribe to this Thread… Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode Enjoy an ad free experience by logging in. Not a member yet? Register. 09-13-2008 #1 SiberCat View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message View Articles Just Joined! Join Date Sep 2008 Posts 2 GRUB HARD DISK ERROR issue I ran into this error message when installing Damn Small Linux (DSL) on a hard disk installed on my Dell desktop. The disk was then installed on a PC104 imbedded computer. I searched numerous postings on the web and found only hints to a solution. I finally solved the problem for my case and wanted to share the results: Here's what didn't work: I installed the disk as the Secondary Slave on my Dell and then installed DSL from a LiveCD, including GRUB. When I moved the disk to the PC104 it was installed as the Primary Master. When I tried booting, I got the GRUB HARD DISK ERROR message. Here's what did work: I installed the disk as the Primary Master on my Dell and then installed DSL (from a LiveCD), including GRUB. When I moved the disk to the PC104 and installed it as Primary Master, it booted OK. Sp
hd install- A window popups and asks for a partition to install; have tried hda and hda1- No multi-user- install bootloader: y- install grubWhen I choose grub, it gives an error 17 in the end, which means it couldn't mount the partition..?! When I reboot it gives the error: no system disk.I tried also lilo which comes up with another error.I prefer to http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/installation/130179-grub-hard-disk-error-issue.html use Grub as i did before.. Who can help me?I've tried it with a complete empty disk (4 gb) and on a partition of 1 gb.how did you format the hard drive? i had the same problem as you when I didn't use a linux tool to create the partition on the hard drive. Hope this http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/f/topic-3-5-13623-0.html helpsTry first formatting the empty hard disk so:1 - Boot from DSL LiveCD using the boot option "dsl 2" without quotation marks. This will boot DSL in mode text only.2 - Execute command:sudo sucfdisk /dev/hdaCreate two partitions with this features:- hda1 Linux Swap Type 82 Size (at least 128 Mb)- hda2 Linux Type 83 Size (the rest of the disk space or at least 2 Gb is recommended)If your hard disk is really big, try leaving some unpartitioned space for future use.Your DSL installation will go to partition hda2. Your DSL swap partition will be hda1.3. Next, you will need to reboot your system, again with the DSL LiveCD and "dsl 2" boot option.4. Type following two commands to enable swap partition:mkswap /dev/hda1swapon /dev/hda15. Type following command to begin the hard disk installation: dsl-hdinstallThx Piccolo, this worked for me, I feel like a n00b lol..I have to modify menu.lst for the correct resolution and adding a windows entry, I think I can manage that :P original here.
BareBones Mini-ITX, Bootable 1G DSL USBs, 533MHz Fanless PC <-- SALE $200 each! Get The Official Damn Small Linux Book. DSL Market , Great VPS http://damnsmalllinux.org/static/act-ST/f-26/t-8732/st-5.html hosting provided by Tektonic Pages: (3) </1[2]3>/ [ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ] Topic: Notes on Frugal Install with Grub and working myDS< Next Oldest | Next Newest > QBRADQ Unregistered Posted: Oct. 14 2005,14:29 Wow, wish I would have seen this post yesterday :PI just got my frugal HD install working today, and my main hang up was GRUB. Here's the problem grub hard I faced:The GRUB device map was getting all out of wack. On my system, my ATA 133 card gets assigned hda - hdd, and my on-board IDEs get hde - hdh. However, in BIOS (and in GRUB), the on-board IDEs are (hd0) - (hd3) and the ATA 133 card is (hd4) - (hd7).When the frugal install script called GRUB to build the device map, this is what it came up grub hard disk with (NOTE: the comments are mine, not GRUB's, and do not appear in the actual device.map):Code Sample (hd0) /dev/hda # This is my large disk on ATA0-M (NTFS)(hd1) /dev/hdb # Does not exist!(hd2) /dev/hdc # Does not exist!(hd3) /dev/hdd # Does not exits!(hd4) /dev/hde # Linux System Disk (ext2, ext3, and 0x82)(hd5) /dev/hdf # Windows Application Disk (NTFS)When installed like this, booting GRUB results in:Code Sample GRUBHard Disk ErrorOddly enough, a manual GRUB install from a GRUB boot CD (those 500k wounders :P) using the same device.map results in "GRUB " being printed out to the BIOS console about a billion times.The Fix:New /boot/grub/device.map (root mounted at /mnt/hde1):Code Sample (hd0) /dev/hde(hd1) /dev/hdf(hd2) /dev/hdg(hd5) /dev/hdaNote that only (hd0) is really needed to boot, but I have many other operatting systems installed and use GRUB to boot them either directly or indirectly.Now, after re-writting /boot/grub/device.map, I had to re-install GRUB. I tried using the command "grub-install '(hd0)'" (NOTE that grub-install requires single quotes around device names, which isn't documented in the --help command). However, when using that command, I get an error saying something like "/dev/cloop has no BIOS device name!".So, in order to re-install GRUB I had to use the GRUB shell, with a few tweaks. Here's a falsy