Re: "grub" command works, but GRUB boot loader hangs

[Ben Liblit]

Wilhelm Wienemann wrote:
> Maybe you can give us an output of linux 'fdisk -l'

Gladly.  Attached below.

> and furthermore a listing of your '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.

I have no such file.

> How did you map the harddisks in GRUBs menu.lst?

I have no such file; I am relying upon GRUB to map my disks however it
sees fit.  When run under Linux, the mapping is:

        /dev/sda  <=>  (hd1)
        /dev/sdb  <=>  (hd2)
        /dev/hdc  <=>  (hd0)

When run as a boot loader, GRUB believes that I have (fd0), (fd1),
(hd0), and (hd1).  It hangs when I try to access any (hd?, ?)
partition.  So it's not at all clear what GRUB's mapping is at that
point, or even whether its mapping makes any sense at all.

>>      primary partition:
>>              Linux device: /dev/hdc
                                   ^^^

Sorry, I had a typo there.  My secondary master IDE drive is /dev/hdc. 
It has one partition, /dev/hdc1, containing a ReiserFS filesystem.

> Is the whole disk one partition?  If so, where is the swap partition?

It has one partition, /dev/hdc1, containing a ReiserFS filesystem. 
There is no swap partition on that drive.  I boot off of /dev/sda, which
contains my root filesystem in /dev/sda3 and a swap partition in
/dev/sda2.

Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1112 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *         1       730   5863693+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/sda2           731       746    128520   82  Linux swap
/dev/sda3           747      1112   2939895   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 553 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1             1       553   4441941    b  Win95 FAT32

Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 4092 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1             1      4092   2062336+  83  Linux