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MEPIS install problems

  • 03-05-2005 11:22pm
    #1
    hostyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭


    After giving up on gentoo, I've decided to go back to MEPIS. Maybe someone has come across this before - a quick google turned up nothing helpful.

    (This is all from memory so some details may seem sketchy). I boot from MEPIS live-cd, run system install, and everything goes smoothly - except for some reason my primary IDE channel / HDD is appearing as hde. I install to this partition anyway and arrive at the boot-loader installation. I want to boot from here, so I install grub to the mbr of hde. I reboot, remove CD and grub comes on screen. All choices lead to (I forget the exact wording) something like "Error 17 - partition not found".

    I've tried booting from the live-cd again and editting the grub files. Its trying to boot from (hd4, 0) hde1. So I tried changing to (hd0, 0) hda1 (because it should be the first partition on the first hard-drive) - same errors at boot.

    How do I find out what disk / partition I should be booting from?

    Why is MEPIS being silly about this?

    I do have a 2-channel PCI IDE adapter in this machine (which google seems to think is the problem), but this has never happened before with any other distro.


Comments

  • #2
    nadir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭nadir


    u gave up on gentoo :(


  • #3
    hostyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭hostyle


    nadir wrote:
    u gave up on gentoo :(

    Kept dropping network connection during install. Drove me crazy. Didnt have the time to babysit it.


  • #4
    declan_lgs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 549 ✭✭✭declan_lgs


    hostyle wrote:
    How do I find out what disk / partition I should be booting from?
    Go into shell mode in GRUB and try GRUBs 'find' command, eg:
    "find /boot/grub/menu.lst" or
    "find /grub/menu.lst" (if /boot is on it's own partition).


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