Grub Endless Loop

[mntbiker3]

Okay, made the changes to menu.lst and this is what it says when I try to boot linux now:

     Booting command-list
root (hd1,0)
   Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x42
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-386

Error 17: Cannont Mount selected partition

[devils casper]

hmm.... now we can try hit n trial method only coz i couldn't find a solution for SFS problem. edit device.map file too.

(hd1)   /dev/hda
(hd0)   /dev/hdb

if it doesn't work ( i think it should work now ), we will have to use SBM or Windows Boot Loader.




Casper

[mntbiker3]

Casper,
After a couple of days and plenty of help from you, gurb now loads windows and linux flawlessly. Thanks for helping, and for responding so quick, and for being patient! I owe you.

[devils casper]

you are most Welcome mntbiker3 ! i am glad i could help you.







Casper

[Gauchoo1234]

Hello CASPER,

I have a very very very similar problem as mntbiker3 had back then in Jan/2007.

Could you please help me?


Initially my system was rebooting after the loading 1.5 stage of grub. After several tweaks, my current problem is:

Grub loads OK (now I see the stage 2 loading message) and I get to the OS list. I have WinXP Pro SP2 and Ubuntu 8.04 installed.
But if I choose Windows, the grub "Starting up" appears with the word GRUB printed right below it, and nothing happens... it looks like the loading process does not even start. All I see is a black screen (same as of DOS prompt) with "Starting Up" on the first line and GRUB on the second, nothing more nothing less.

I had to Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart everything again.

Then I choose Ubuntu, but erro 17 appears: "Cannot mount selected partition"
From the GRUB list options:
"17 : Cannot mount selected partition
This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB."


I have the feeling that I'm close to fix this issue.What should I do now? It looks like I need to handle either device.map and menu.lst, but I'm not sure what should I change there.

Here's my device.map:

(hd0)    /dev/hde
(hd1)    /dev/hdf
(hd2)    /dev/hdg
(hd3)    /dev/hdh

And here's my menu.lst:

title           Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root            (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader     +1

title           Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
root            (hd3,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=c92660b5-2b8c-4895-8501-9591ba4f86c8 ro quiet splash
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
quiet

title           Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (recovery mode)
root            (hd3,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=c92660b5-2b8c-4895-8501-9591ba4f86c8 ro single
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic

title           Ubuntu 8.04, memtest86+
root            (hd3,0)
kernel          /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

[devils casper]

Hi Gauchoo1234 !

Welcome to LinuxForums !

Is Ubuntu booting up fine? Post the output of sudo fdisk -l command here.

sudo fdisk -l

[yancek]

How many drives do you have?
Change your windows entry from root to rootnoverify.
Post output of 'fdisk -l' command.

[Gauchoo1234]

Hello everybody, thanks for the quick reply!

I'll post the fdisk -l within a few minutes, just let me load the ubuntu live cd.

You can follow all my saga on the following link:
GRUB problem : "Loading Stage 1.5" in infinited loop - LinuxQuestions.org

There you'll see my system specs, what I've gone through and how I came to this point

But just don't take that (fdisk -l output) as the current one, since I've changed the boot disks, I need to post the new output. Just wait a few minutes

[Gauchoo1234]

Is Ubuntu booting up fine?

Right now it is not. Like I said above, it was booting fine until I change the boot HD on the BIOS.

How many drives do you have?

I have 4 HDs attached to a HighPoint controller on my Abit BX133-RAID motherboard.

They are indentified as hde, hdf, hdg and hdh.

I've installed Windows (C:\) on hde and used the 2 other HDs (hdf and hdg) for Windows additional partitions (D:\, E:\, F:\, etc).

IMPORTANT: ALL Windows partitions/disks are Dynamic!

The 'last' HD (hdh) was empty and I left if for Linux. Installed Ubuntu then all the problem started. The Windows HDs were already dynamic by the time I installed Ubuntu.

Post the output of sudo fdisk -l command here.

Post output of 'fdisk -l' command.

Here it is:

root@ubuntu:/# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hde: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa29fa29f

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hde1   *           1        2550    20482843+  42  SFS
/dev/hde2            2551        9729    57665317+  42  SFS

Disk /dev/hdf: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0dba0dba

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdf1               1        9729    78148161   42  SFS

Disk /dev/hdg: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5ee25ee2

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdg1               1        9729    78148161   42  SFS

Disk /dev/hdh: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5f495f49

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdh1   *           1        4858    39021853+  83  Linux
root@ubuntu:/#

[Gauchoo1234]

Please guys do not let me down