I got the same Problem

[linuxdude010@…]

Yesterday, I downloaded this: http://lrs.linbox.org/pub/lrs/demo/vmware/lrs_gpl_vmware_latest.zip

and loaded it in the latest vmware player on my Windows machine, it's running fine.

When I try to boot Local Disk from the linbox menu, I get this:

"Executing 'Local Hard Disk' root (hd0)

Filesystem type unknown, using whole disk

chainloader +1

Error 13: Invalide or unsupported executabel format

Press any key to continue..."

Then my system reboots. I cannot figure out why. My desktop is running FC6 with the default LVM configuration on a /dev/sda SATA2 disk. Grub is installed on my MBR, and it works fine when I disable Network boot (disable linbox) in my BIOS.

I cannot seem to find anyone else having this problem.

Any help would be appreciated.

I tried the MBR fix option, also, but it didn't work, I get the same "Filesystem type unknown, using whole disk" warning, followed by an orange screen and freeze. Nothing left to do but reboot. It didn't corrupt my MBR, I can still boot FC6 from local disk when no PXE boot is in the mix.

I'm happy to provide any more information you may need.

[linuxdude010@…]

The problem I previously described was using my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop running Windows XP Pro with VMPlayer. Hoping I could resolve my issue, I converted this laptop into a Linbox rescue server by grabing the latest ISO and installing from CD. Installation finished, but now the Linbox rescue server cannot recognize my onboard NIC, which I believe to be a "Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller". This was a desperate attempt, I can go back to XP with VMware. Or, maybe I'll to go FC6 with VMWare Player? Or FC6 and attempt the installation of Linbox Rescue Server manually. The thing is, I have no high up of any of these options resolving the issue. It seems more like my FC6 desktop is not setup in a way that Linbox Rescue Server likes.

My desktop experiencing the problem of "filesystem unknown" when trying to Local Boot from the Linbox PXE boot options page is an AMD Athalon 64 x2 with FC6 x86_64, using a Maxtor Basics SATA II/300 Internal 200 GB 7200 RPM disk with 2 GB of DDR2 RAM. My fstab looks like this:

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0

and my /etc/grub.conf file looks like:

default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu password --md5 [snip] title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2868.fc6)

root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2868.fc6.img

title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)

root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img

and my partition scheme is: $ sudo /sbin/sfdisk -d /dev/sda Password: # partition table of /dev/sda unit: sectors

/dev/sda1 : start= 63, size= 208782, Id=83, bootable /dev/sda2 : start= 208845, size=390508020, Id=8e /dev/sda3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 /dev/sda4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0

... is there any other information you need to diagnose this issue?

[linuxdude010@…]

My paste from previous post screwed up the line breaks on my fstab, grub.conf and sfdisk dump, if you don't mind, reassemble the output with the line breaks in the right place.

[ludo]

Hi !

It seems that grub does not find the right boot signature in the boot sector... 0xAA55 should be found at the end of the 1st disk sector. Could you send me the 'bootsect' file after running 'dd if=/dev/sda of=bootsect count=1' ?

Cheers,

Ludovic.

[Juergen Scholz]

Hello!

I got the same problem here, after something changed on the system (Ubuntu 7.10 - worked fine at first).

root@sonnenschein:~# dd if=/dev/sda of=bootsect count=1 1+0 Datensätze ein 1+0 Datensätze aus 512 Bytes (512 B) kopiert, 0,00823412 Sekunden, 62,2 kB/s root@sonnenschein:~# hexdump bootsect 0000000 48eb 1090 d08e 00bc b8b0 0000 d88e c08e 0000010 befb 7c00 00bf b906 0200 a4f3 21ea 0006 0000020 be00 07be 0438 0b75 c683 8110 fefe 7507 0000030 ebf3 b416 b002 bb01 7c00 80b2 748a 0203 0000040 00ff 2000 0001 0000 0200 90fa f690 80c2 0000050 0275 80b2 59ea 007c 3100 8ec0 8ed8 bcd0 0000060 2000 a0fb 7c40 ff3c 0274 c288 be52 7d7f 0000070 34e8 f601 80c2 5474 41b4 aabb cd55 5a13 0000080 7252 8149 55fb 75aa a043 7c41 c084 0575 0000090 e183 7401 6637 4c8b be10 7c05 44c6 01ff 00000a0 8b66 441e c77c 1004 c700 0244 0001 8966 00000b0 085c 44c7 0006 6670 c031 4489 6604 4489 00000c0 b40c cd42 7213 bb05 7000 7deb 08b4 13cd 00000d0 0a73 c2f6 0f80 ea84 e900 008d 05be c67c 00000e0 ff44 6600 c031 f088 6640 4489 3104 88d2 00000f0 c1ca 02e2 e888 f488 8940 0844 c031 d088 0000100 e8c0 6602 0489 a166 7c44 3166 66d2 34f7 0000110 5488 660a d231 f766 0474 5488 890b 0c44 0000120 443b 7d08 8a3c 0d54 e2c0 8a06 0a4c c1fe 0000130 d108 6c8a 5a0c 748a bb0b 7000 c38e db31 0000140 01b8 cd02 7213 8c2a 8ec3 4806 607c b91e 0000150 0100 db8e f631 ff31 f3fc 1fa5 ff61 4226 0000160 be7c 7d85 40e8 eb00 be0e 7d8a 38e8 eb00 0000170 be06 7d94 30e8 be00 7d99 2ae8 eb00 47fe 0000180 5552 2042 4700 6f65 006d 6148 6472 4420 0000190 7369 006b 6552 6461 2000 7245 6f72 0072 00001a0 01bb b400 cd0e ac10 003c f475 00c3 0000 00001b0 0000 0000 0000 0000 4f5b 0000 0000 0180 00001c0 0001 fe83 ffff 003f 0000 2049 1245 fe00 00001d0 ffff fe05 ffff 2088 1245 6a39 005c 0000 00001e0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00001f0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 aa55 0000200

HTH,

juergen

[Juergen Scholz]

Oh my god. That was not wot worth anything. *retry*

root@sonnenschein:~# dd if=/dev/sda of=bootsect count=1
1+0 Datensätze ein
1+0 Datensätze aus
512 Bytes (512 B) kopiert, 0,00823412 Sekunden, 62,2 kB/s
root@sonnenschein:~# hexdump bootsect
0000000 48eb 1090 d08e 00bc b8b0 0000 d88e c08e
0000010 befb 7c00 00bf b906 0200 a4f3 21ea 0006
0000020 be00 07be 0438 0b75 c683 8110 fefe 7507
0000030 ebf3 b416 b002 bb01 7c00 80b2 748a 0203
0000040 00ff 2000 0001 0000 0200 90fa f690 80c2
0000050 0275 80b2 59ea 007c 3100 8ec0 8ed8 bcd0
0000060 2000 a0fb 7c40 ff3c 0274 c288 be52 7d7f
0000070 34e8 f601 80c2 5474 41b4 aabb cd55 5a13
0000080 7252 8149 55fb 75aa a043 7c41 c084 0575
0000090 e183 7401 6637 4c8b be10 7c05 44c6 01ff
00000a0 8b66 441e c77c 1004 c700 0244 0001 8966
00000b0 085c 44c7 0006 6670 c031 4489 6604 4489
00000c0 b40c cd42 7213 bb05 7000 7deb 08b4 13cd
00000d0 0a73 c2f6 0f80 ea84 e900 008d 05be c67c
00000e0 ff44 6600 c031 f088 6640 4489 3104 88d2
00000f0 c1ca 02e2 e888 f488 8940 0844 c031 d088
0000100 e8c0 6602 0489 a166 7c44 3166 66d2 34f7
0000110 5488 660a d231 f766 0474 5488 890b 0c44
0000120 443b 7d08 8a3c 0d54 e2c0 8a06 0a4c c1fe
0000130 d108 6c8a 5a0c 748a bb0b 7000 c38e db31
0000140 01b8 cd02 7213 8c2a 8ec3 4806 607c b91e
0000150 0100 db8e f631 ff31 f3fc 1fa5 ff61 4226
0000160 be7c 7d85 40e8 eb00 be0e 7d8a 38e8 eb00
0000170 be06 7d94 30e8 be00 7d99 2ae8 eb00 47fe
0000180 5552 2042 4700 6f65 006d 6148 6472 4420
0000190 7369 006b 6552 6461 2000 7245 6f72 0072
00001a0 01bb b400 cd0e ac10 003c f475 00c3 0000
00001b0 0000 0000 0000 0000 4f5b 0000 0000 0180
00001c0 0001 fe83 ffff 003f 0000 2049 1245 fe00
00001d0 ffff fe05 ffff 2088 1245 6a39 005c 0000
00001e0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
00001f0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 aa55
0000200

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