Mint Startup Screen

[Skeeter]

The first line says, "/dev/sda6."
The second from the bottom line says, "/dev/sdb5."

Linux won't load if I click on the first line "/dev/sda6."
But it will load when I click on "/dev/sdb5."

Is that first line supposed to be there?
I tried to post a link to the screen but I haven't made 15 posts yet.

[devils casper]

It looks like wrong entries in GRUB Menu. Boot up Mint and execute this in Terminal :

sudo update-grub

It will probe all installed OSes and generate new GRUB Menu. In case it doesn't remove wrong entry, post the output of sudo fdisk -l command here.

sudo fdisk -l

[Skeeter]

When I entered "sudo update-grub" it said this: "grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /."

Below is what you requested. May I ask what the information below reveals to you?
Thank you.

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xec77ec77

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 10199 81923436 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 10200 19457 74364885 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 10200 10442 1951866 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 10443 12266 14651248+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x44fdfe06

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 16914 135861673+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 16915 19457 20426647+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 16915 19345 19526976 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 19346 19457 899608+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

[devils casper]

Linux installed in Second Hard disk ( sdb ) is working fine but its throwing error for First Hard disk.

Which Linux distro did you install in First Hard disk? Disable or Unplug Second Hard disk. Does GRUB Menu appear and Linux boot up fine from First Disk?

[Skeeter]

Linux installed in Second Hard disk ( sdb ) is working fine but its throwing error for First Hard disk.

Which Linux distro did you install in First Hard disk? Disable or Unplug Second Hard disk. Does GRUB Menu appear and Linux boot up fine from First Disk?

The first line says, "/dev/sda6." Linux won't load if I click on the first line. (I'm assuming this is the First disk.)
The second from the bottom line says, "/dev/sdb5".
Linux loads when I click on "/dev/sdb5."
(I'm assuming that is the Second disk.)


I installed Linux Mint 8 Helena. Linux won't boot up from the first disk. I have to boot from the second one. How do I disable or unplug the Second Hard disk? Thank you again.

[devils casper]

Check the contents of /boot/grub/device.map file.
Its contents should be :

(hd0)    /dev/sda
(hd1)   /dev/sdb

In case there is only one line, edit device.map file.
Press Alt+F2 and type this

gksu gedit /boot/grub/device.map

It will open device.map file in Gedit with root privileges.

Add another line, save file and execute 'sudo update-grub' command again.

[Skeeter]

When I did what you said it showed this:

(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb
(hd2) /dev/sdc

I didn't add another line as there were 3 lines there.

[yancek]

Linux Mint loads when you select the entry sdb5, is that correct?
What is on the Linux partition on sda6? Did you install Mint on both drives? some other distribution? is that just a data partition?

Again, what happens when you disable/disconnect the second hard disk (sdb)?

[Leppie]

could you download and run the boot info script and post the generated RESULTS.txt?

[Skeeter]

Linux Mint loads when you select the entry sdb5, is that correct? Yes
What is on the Linux partition on sda6? Mint 8 Helena Did you install Mint on both drives? Yes, I think I did. Uh oh...I didn't know what I was doing. some other distribution? No, same one. is that just a data partition?

Again, what happens when you disable/disconnect the second hard disk (sdb)?

I don't know how to disable the second hard disk.

Thank you