did you do any recent updates that involved grub? if so, it may have
renamed a partition on you. I can't be sure though as I use linux
inside a VM these days and I don't much mess with grub. upon looking
at your info, you might have to reinstall grub. if its saying that
its attempting to access block outside of the partition, it may
thing your kernel is in the wrong spot. someone please correct me on
this if I am in error.
On 8/10/10 10:48 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have a system running Debian
testing. It is a dual boot with a
> Windows partition. It has worked for years, but now somehow
grub got
> confused. When I try to boot, I get an error 22 - partition
not
> found. I booted uo knoppix, and the drive is there and I can
see all
> the files.
>
> menu.list has title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel
2.6.26-2-686 root
> (hd1,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686
root=/dev/hdb5 ro
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
>
> parted from the knoppix disk shows: (parted) print all
> Model: ATA ST3200822A (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 200GB Sector
size
> (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos
>
> Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1
> 32.3kB 200GB 200GB extended 5 64.5kB 198GB 198GB
logical
> ext3 boot 6 198GB 200GB 2048MB logical
linux-swap
>
>
>
> Model: ATA WDC WD2500AAJB-0 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 250GB
Sector size
> (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos
>
> Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1
> 32.3kB 250GB 250GB primary ext3
>
> I remember mucking with the drives a long time (years) ago -
I moved
> the boot drive from the second position to the first
position), but
> it booted fine after that and ran for years. I am surprised
that the
> menu.list shows the boot drive in the second position.
Anyway, when
> the system boots, the grub menu comes up. I tried editing the
boot
> parameters from root (hd1,4) kernel
> /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/hdb5 ro
>
> to root (hd0,4) kernel
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686
> root=/dev/hda5 ro
>
> but I get this error message:
>
> root (hd0,4) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernal..... [Linux-bz-Image, setup=0x3000, size=ox16ce50]
Error 24
> Attempt to access block outside partition
>
> All of the data seems to be intact when viewed from Knoppix.
>
> Any ideas on how to fix grub and get the system to boot?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark