[CentOS] problem configuring grub for a dual-boot
Ljubomir Ljubojevic
centos at plnet.rs
Thu Aug 8 10:33:12 UTC 2013
On 08/08/2013 12:04 PM, Vanhorn, Mike wrote:
>
> I tried the suggestion of swapping the disks assignments:
>
>> Try telling grub to swap the disks:
>>
>>> title Windows 7
>> map (hd1) (hd0)
>> map (hd0) (hd1)
>>> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
>>> chainloader +1
>
> But that still just gets me
>
>
> invalid EFI file path
> Error 1: Filename must be either an absolute pathname or blocklist
>
>
>
> I think that my failing is something to do with grub and EFI. In the
> anaconda-generated grub.conf file, there is a line that reads
>
> device (hd0) HD(1,800,64000,9b55c4a9-fdbe-4fcd-857b-8e7e129e29f9)
>
> I have no idea where that UUID came from, as both blkid and ls -l
> /dev/disk/by-uuid do not have entries for the disks themselves, just for
> the partitions. Maybe that isn't even a UUID. At any rate, I'm wondering
> if there should be a similar entry for the other disk in the system.
>
> ---
> Mike VanHorn
> Senior Computer Systems Administrator
> College of Engineering and Computer Science
> Wright State University
> 265 Russ Engineering Center
> 937-775-5157
> michael.vanhorn at wright.edu
> http://www.cecs.wright.edu/~mvanhorn/
>
Check this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880030
And search the net for 'device (hd0) HD(1,800", you will get interesting
texts that might help you.
--
Ljubomir Ljubojevic
(Love is in the Air)
PL Computers
Serbia, Europe
StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant
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