CentOS 5 :: Chainloading 2nd Sata Drive Partition 5?

Mar 5, 2011

I am still fighting with getting the right configuration in my grub file to chainload the second linux OS on my computer.

Computer:
2 hard drives (sata)
2 OS's (CentOS,Ubuntu)

CentOS is in and running fine. It owns the MBR and was in place before I added the Ubuntu OS. Ubuntu was added to the free space of the second hard drive in partition 5 and its grub was installed there. So I thought this would work for a grub stanza.

title Ubuntu (10.10)
root (hd1,4)
chainloader +1

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Details:

BIOS lists the eSATA drive

Entering Yast Expert Partitioner, error message follows:

The partitioning on disk /dev/sdc is not readable by the partitioning tool parted, which is used to change the partition table.

You can use the partitions on disk /dev/sdc as they are. You can format them and assign mount points to them, but you cannot add, edit, resize, or remove partitions from that disk with this tool.

Yast partitioner shows drives: sda, sda1, sda2, sda3, sdb, sdb1 sbc is not listed.

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# dmesg | grep tail reports:
[48442.370779] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code
[48442.370793] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdc] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
code....

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[sudo] password for bogdan:
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Disk /dev/sda: 41.2GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
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2 39.4GB 41.2GB 1734MB extended
5 39.4GB 41.2GB 1734MB logical linux-swap(v1)

Model: WD 10EAVS External (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

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1 32.3kB 1000GB 1000GB primary fat32 lba

Warning: Unable to open /dev/fd0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/fd0
has been opened read-only.
Error: /dev/fd0: unrecognized disk label
bogdan@LORD:~$

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