GRUB Hard Disk error..

**Deliorion** · 07-02-2004

Hey, I've looked everywhere, tried just about everything I could find, and I still can't fix this. Okay, I've got WinXP Pro installed on a 120GB SATA HD and Fedora Core 1 on a 40GB HD with the black box thing to make it SATA. Whenever I boot up or shut down, it gives me tons of errors like "blah blah sata error blah blah". So after a few times I decided to switch my 40GB with my 60 GB which is connected to IDE.. bad decision. Then I couldn't boot up any OS, so I decided to switch the cables back. Then GRUB wouldn't load.. So I used my Linux rescue disk (Thank god I created one). So now I'm stuck here, on Linux..

**sunnylearns** · 07-02-2004

which is your primary drive and secondary drive.

can you pls give more info on your hdd config and your partition information.

**Deliorion** · 07-02-2004

Primary drive is the 120, secondary is the 40 I guess. It's suppose to boot off the 120, which is Windows.

Also, what do you mean by partition info?

**Dolda2000** · 07-02-2004

Partition info - what partitions do you have on each drive? In essence, can you post the output of "fdisk -l" from Linux?

**Deliorion** · 07-02-2004

Oh, alright. Here you go:

Code:

Disk /dev/hdg&#58; 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77557 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
 
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdg1   *         1       203    102280+  83  Linux
/dev/hdg2           204     75477  37938096   83  Linux
/dev/hdg3         75478     77557   1048320   82  Linux swap
 
Disk /dev/hde&#58; 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hde1   *         1     14946 120053713+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Mod edit - added code tags

**Dolda2000** · 07-02-2004

OK - try running "grub-install /dev/hde" from Linux and see if that makes it any better.

**Deliorion** · 07-02-2004

Here's what it said:

Code:

Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.

# this device map was generated by anaconda
&#40;fd0&#41;     /dev/fd0
&#40;hd0&#41;     /dev/hda
&#40;hd1&#41;     /dev/hde
&#40;hd2&#41;     /dev/hdg

Alright, rebooting..

**Deliorion** · 07-02-2004

Alright, that fixed the GRUB Hard Disk error, but when it booted up, it just kept scrolling a bunch of ASCII that looked like "GRUB"...

**Dolda2000** · 07-02-2004

Did it really scroll? Didn't it stop at a "grub>" prompt?

**Deliorion** · 07-02-2004

It did scroll, it went for a minute or 2 then I decided to reboot back up with the boot disk.

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