Boot Mint 7 with mixed IDE,SATA (SOLVED)
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 9:46 pm
This is my first with Mint and what a beautiful distro. I would like to make it my main OS.
But here's my little problem.
I have 3 disks, 1 IDE (20GB) and 2 SATA (2x80GB). No matter how I setup Mint, I can't get it to boot from my IDE HD.
Here's what I tried :
1- Desable the 2 satas in the bios. Install Mint on the IDE. No problem, boot fine and everything works.
2- Re-enable the 2 satas. Of course no more boot from the IDE. Bunch of errors, in summary "doesn't have /sbin/init". Ok must be the order of disks have screw up Grub.
3- Erase my IDE, leave all drives actives. Boot the Live cd, re-install Mint on the ide with no issue. (btw grub sees the first sata as /dev/sda). Reboot from HD no go, the PC says "no system disk found".
4- Restart the whole install but in the "advance setup", I select to put Grub on the IDE drive which is labelled /dev/sdc.
This time, the boot start ok but stop dead with Error 17 cannot mount selected partition.
I tried to go through all the help but I can't get it to boot. Anyone has an idea ? Thanks
grub devicemap file :
hd0 /dev/sda (sata 80gb)
hd1 /dev/sdb (sata 80gb)
hd2 /dev/sdc (ide 20 gb, my boot drive)
grub menu.lst:
....
root (hd2,0)
kernel /boot/blabla... root=/dev/sdc1 ro quiet
initrd /boot/blabla...
....
That seems alright but I'm hardly an expert. Btw, the Bios is always set to boot from the Ide.
But here's my little problem.
I have 3 disks, 1 IDE (20GB) and 2 SATA (2x80GB). No matter how I setup Mint, I can't get it to boot from my IDE HD.
Here's what I tried :
1- Desable the 2 satas in the bios. Install Mint on the IDE. No problem, boot fine and everything works.
2- Re-enable the 2 satas. Of course no more boot from the IDE. Bunch of errors, in summary "doesn't have /sbin/init". Ok must be the order of disks have screw up Grub.
3- Erase my IDE, leave all drives actives. Boot the Live cd, re-install Mint on the ide with no issue. (btw grub sees the first sata as /dev/sda). Reboot from HD no go, the PC says "no system disk found".
4- Restart the whole install but in the "advance setup", I select to put Grub on the IDE drive which is labelled /dev/sdc.
This time, the boot start ok but stop dead with Error 17 cannot mount selected partition.
I tried to go through all the help but I can't get it to boot. Anyone has an idea ? Thanks
grub devicemap file :
hd0 /dev/sda (sata 80gb)
hd1 /dev/sdb (sata 80gb)
hd2 /dev/sdc (ide 20 gb, my boot drive)
grub menu.lst:
....
root (hd2,0)
kernel /boot/blabla... root=/dev/sdc1 ro quiet
initrd /boot/blabla...
....
That seems alright but I'm hardly an expert. Btw, the Bios is always set to boot from the Ide.