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santhoshveigas - 12.09.2006, 05:00 Uhr
Titel: RC4- Installation Problems

Hello all,

I am unable to install RC4 onto to my machine (desktop- AMD 64- 512MB RAM).

I have partitioned the hard drives and allocated 20GB for Kanotix.

I followed the routine procedure of installing ( something i have been successful doing on a few diffrent machines). I have installed GRUB to MBR.

The Kanotix Installer Dialog box says the installation is complete.
When I restart the my machine the GRUB does not pop up. I have WinXP and it gets loaded up. The dual boot screen does not come at all.

I reinstalled it again, on some suggestions from IRC. But no success.

When I put the live CD and try to give a restor GRUB command.
It returns as error saying GRUB returned an error1.

Please help......

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
tronix_utSahi,

ockham23 - 12.09.2006, 08:01 Uhr
Titel: RE: RC4- Installation Problems

Zitat:

I have partitioned the hard drives and allocated 20GB for Kanotix.

We need to know more about your system's configuration. What drives do you have and how are they connected to the computer?
Master and slave drive(s) of primary and secondary IDE channel? SATA drives?

Please also post the output of

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

santhoshveigas - 14.09.2006, 04:49 Uhr
Titel: RE: RC4- Installation Problems

Hello,

I have a SATA hard drive as well as a IDE hard drive.

I have tried installing Kanotix unto my SATA HDD.

The output of sudo fdisk -l is as follows:

root@0[knoppix]# sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdb: 20.4 GB, 20411080704 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2481 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 1241 9968301 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdb2 1242 2481 9960300 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 1242 2481 9960268+ b W95 FAT32

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

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1789 14370111 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1790 9729 63778050 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 1790 3064 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 3065 4346 10297633+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 4347 5628 10297633+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda8 5629 6910 10297633+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda9 6911 9536 21093313+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 9537 9729 1550241 82 Linux swap / Solaris
root@0[knoppix]#

All help is appreciated.

Regards,
tronix_utSahi

ockham23 - 14.09.2006, 09:46 Uhr
Titel: RE: RC4- Installation Problems

Apparently, the smaller hard drive (hdb) is configured as "slave drive" at the primary IDE channel. Which drive is hda, i.e. master drive at the primary IDE channel? What is the BIOS boot sequence for these drives?

hdb and sda both hold windows formatted partitions. On which partition is your windows install and where is windows bootloader ntldr located?

santhoshveigas - 15.09.2006, 12:04 Uhr
Titel: RE: RC4- Installation Problems

Hello,

There is no master drive on my system.

The BIOS boot sequence: The first boot device is my CD ROM
The second boot device is my SATA HDD.

My windows is installed on sda1 partition of the SATA HDD.

Can you please tell me what is windows bootloader ntldr.
Where can I find it.

Thanks for all the help rendered.

Regards,
tronix_utSahi,

ockham23 - 15.09.2006, 12:33 Uhr
Titel: RE: RC4- Installation Problems

ntldr should be on the partition where you installed windows. Sometimes people manage to install windows on a partition that isn't marked as "active", and the windows bootmanager ntldr is located on a different partition. But this doesn't seem to be a problem here.

Can you reinstall grub without errors if you disconnect hdb before booting off the LiveCD?

santhoshveigas - 19.09.2006, 05:12 Uhr
Titel: RC4-Installation Success

Hello,

I removed my second hard drive - hdb and installed kanotix and it worked well.

I got the dual boot screen for WinXP and Kanotix.

Also, I later connected my second hard drive- hdb after the installation and all is working well now.

Thanks a lot for the help.

Could you please explain the logic behind this excersie?

Regards,
tronix_utSahi

ockham23 - 19.09.2006, 08:55 Uhr
Titel: RE: RC4-Installation Success

Zitat:

Could you please explain the logic behind this excersie?

I suspect your drives aren't set up properly. If you attach a single drive to an IDE channel it should be configured as "master drive" (=hda).

santhoshveigas - 19.09.2006, 11:08 Uhr
Titel: RE: RC4-Installation Success

Hello,

I have purposely configured the harddrive as a slave by setting up the appropriate jumpers at the back of the HDD.

Regards,
tronix_utSahi

ockham23 - 19.09.2006, 11:11 Uhr
Titel: RE: RC4-Installation Success

That's interesting. Why?