[Ilugc] Not able to boot in Linux

[gowri shankar]

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> From: "Parthan SR" <parth.technofreak at gmail.com>
> To: "ILUG-C" <ilugc at ae.iitm.ac.in>
> Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Not able to boot in Linux
> Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:28:40 +0530
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> gowri shankar wrote:
> > Hi friends
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> >     I had a PC with dual OS (Win XP $ Enterprise Linux 3), on
> reinstalling the XP i lost the grub. When i try to fix it thru the first
> disk of EL3,faced a error msg as "/dev/hda does not have any
> corresponding BIOS drive".
> >    Please suggest me to fix it...
> Try to get your grub's menu.lst from the Linux partition. If you have
> only a "/", then use any Live CD to boot the system up, mount the
> partition and check "/boot/grub/menu.lst". You should be able to see the
> previous grub entry from which you can ask it to reinstall grub on the
> Linux Partition. (It should be either hda1 or hda2 depending upon the
> swap partition)
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hi ...thanks for your suggestions

      i am able to see my /boot/grub/menu.lst, when i try to list my HDD partions those are in the order as mentioned below

          /dev/hda1    win95 FAT32 (LBA)
          /dev/hda2    win95 FAT32 (LBA)
          /dev/hda3    Linux
          /dev/hda4    win95 Ext'd (LBA)
          /dev/hda5    Linux swap 
          /dev/hda6    Linux 


where hda1 and hda2 are C and D drive of Win resp. hda3 is /boot ,hda5 is swap,hda6 is /(root).

As you suggested 
  i tried the following command
            #grub-install /dev/hda
 
  i got the error as /dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. The same error repeats even when i mention the partition No (i.e /dev/hda{1-6} )


Regards
Gowrishankar
+91 9916704945

   


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