Hello every one. Just giving a try at Linux.
I downloaded Ubuntu 7.10 ISO and installed it on my HDD. Now GRUB was not installed properly. Here is description of my HDD config.
SATA1 HDD1 -
WinXP is installed on first primary partition on NTFS.
Other partitions are NTFS only
SATA2 HDD2 -
First 2 partitions are primary formatted in NTFS.
Partition 5 in logical, ext3 and mounted as /
Partition 6 is logical, and formatted as SWAP
SATA3 DVD -
It was the source to install linux
IDE Master HDD3 -
First partition NTFS
Second is SWAP which was existing since my last try at linux few years ago.
Third is FAT32
IDE Slave DVD
Nothing special
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After installing Ubuntu, GRUB was installed on MBR. But after restart I get
GRUB error 17
Now both my WinXP and Ubuntu were not working, so I restored MBR from WinXP bootable CD. As second option I tried 'grubinstall' a GRUB for Windows NT. With it I was able to get GRUB option in boot.ini and it loads in GRUB.
Once in GRUB, I gave following commands in GRUB prompt.
Code:
root (hd2,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=/dev/sdc3 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
boot
This shows Ubuntu splash screen, but then hung at 'Waiting for root filesystem...'.
Please help me out what I am doing wrong? I don't have much knowledge of GRUB or Linux booting process.
Best possible option for me is to install GRUB on MBR of HDD2 connected at 2nd SATA port. As it also has linux partition, and I can use boot selection of my motherboard to select HDD to boot from. Please tell me steps for the same.