[ale] Boot issues - OR - why Mafia$oft hurts/disappoints everyone endlessly

[Dan Lambert]

I would recommend that you try to use the Ubuntu Alternative Install CD.
You can work from the text based installer with it, and manually pick
your disk partitioning and other options. It seems to work better with
difficult hardware configurations than the Live CD version.

Maybe you could have someone talk you through the installation over the
phone. That might be more helpful that trying to email the questions and
results back and forth. I'd be more than happy to do that myself, but
I'm getting ready to board a plane for a two week business trip.

Dan

On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 00:49 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 00:22 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > At this point its time to try a different distro. Grab fedora 13 or 14
> > in a
> > live cd and boot it up. See if it finds both drives. If so please post
> > back
> > the /boot/grub/grub.conf or menu.1st file. There can be two places to
> > define
> > where / is. One is global the other is specific per boot kernel. I
> > suspect
> > the later is wrong as it loads a kernel.
> 
> I have to concur with this.  This has been mentioned a couple of times
> to try another distro.  Not because we want you to switch but because we
> are trying to determine the source of the problem.  My reasons are very
> likely to be very different than other people's reasons but I do most of
> my debugging on Fedora.
> 
> I will also say again to...  Grab a copy of NST (minimal - no GUI) and
> fire it up.  If it boots (and I will be shocked if it doesn't with a
> modern processor) log into the console and dump /proc/partitions
> and /proc/cpuinfo for us and maybe give us the output of hdparam
> -i /dev/sd{ab} and smartctl -i /dev/sd{ab}.  If it doesn't boot, find an
> earlier version but that, in and of itself, is saying something very
> dark and fundamental about your hardware.
> 
> > Also try reinstall with windows drive fully disconnected and set for
> > boot
> > drive only new Linux drive. Be sure to fully reformat the drive in the
> > process.
> > 
> Regards,
> Mike
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