Asus CUBX-E -with Promise ATA100: No boot after installation.
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Hello,
i have a computer here with intel 440bx chipset. it is an Asus CUBX-E with integrated promise ata100 controller.
(2x ATA33 and 2x ATA100).
I connected one ATA100 supporting harddisk to the corresponding controller on the board (i used the right blue cable...), booted up with the live-cd and successfully installed the system. Since its the only OS on the system i choosed not to install Grub at all.
Then, I booted the machine and then: Nothing.
Just the cursor in the upper left corner and a black screen.
Hope you can help here!
Thanks,
LinuxWorld
I did that, but
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You need GRUB. Go back to the live CD, boot it, and install GRUB to your MBR.Mike
http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Reinstalling_GRUB
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Hi Mike,
i did that and linux starts, but my attempts to make a dualboot system is not workable. There are 4 controllers on this board (PROMISE ATA100 Controller onboard). 2 "normal ones" ata 33 and 2 "blue" ones ATA100. On the first one (the black IDE connector) i have a 10GB disk with windows2000, on the second one is a cd-rom drive. the third one has another ata100 Hdd with windows 98 and on the fourth one i plugged in another ATA100 HDD. Mepis is installed on this one. I installed grub onto that same disk into the MBR where Mepis is installed. All seems ok and menu.lst is filled with stuff..but on the next restart when i see the grub menu ( all OS´ses seem to be there..) and choose one of the window$$$ entries , then nothing happens. error. But i can boot into Mepis. All other entries made by GRUB (i used the mepis assistant) are wrong, obviously.
I installed grub onto the windows 98 HDD (the One on the third ATA100 connector) with the same result.
I hope i could make my problem clear...seems that Grub is not perfect, but noone is ;=)
do you have suggestions how to solve this?
Thank you
need some info
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please post your /boot/grub/menu.lst
and /etc/fstab
and if you can work it out, what the drive allocation letters are
perhaps they are
hda 10G windows 2000
hdb cdrom
hdc win98
hdd mepis
Solved
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Its working now. Indeed it was a problem with the drive letters!
MEPIS Linux 6.5
Asus CUBX-E (i440BX)
Pentium 3 1000 Mhz
Geforce 2 MX/MX400 64MB
512 MB SDRAM (PC133)
60GB Seagate Barracuda ATA100
80GB Western Digital Caviar ATA100
TEAC DVD/R/RW/CD
You need GRUB. Go back to
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You need GRUB. Go back to the live CD, boot it, and install GRUB to your MBR.
Mike
http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Reinstalling_GRUB
Welcome to Mepis!