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. <br>
<br>menu.list has <br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">title        Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">root        (hd1,4)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/hdb5 ro </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686</span><br>
<br>parted from the knoppix disk shows:<br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">(parted) print all                                                        </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Model: ATA ST3200822A (scsi)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Disk /dev/sda: 200GB</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Partition Table: msdos</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Number  Start   End    Size    Type      File system  Flags</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> 1      32.3kB  200GB  200GB   extended                    </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> 5      64.5kB  198GB  198GB   logical   ext3         boot </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> 6      198GB   200GB  2048MB  logical   linux-swap        </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Model: ATA WDC WD2500AAJB-0 (scsi)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Disk /dev/sdb: 250GB</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Partition Table: msdos</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Number  Start   End    Size   Type     File system  Flags</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> 1      32.3kB  250GB  250GB  primary  ext3              </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">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<br>
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">root        (hd1,4)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/hdb5 ro <br><br>to<br>root        (hd0,4)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro </span><br><br>but I get this error message:<br><br>root (hd0,4)<br>Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83<br>
kernal.....<br>[Linux-bz-Image, setup=0x3000, size=ox16ce50]<br>Error 24 Attempt to access block outside partition<br><br>All of the data seems to be intact when viewed from Knoppix.<br><br>Any ideas on how to fix grub and get the system to boot?<br>
<br>Thanks,<br><br>Mark<br>