Re: Geom Error, but only after a "wake on lan"

[Paul Bolle]

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 21:20, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 12:29, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 October 2003 00:28, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > > When I try to boot my PC using wake on lan, power will be switched on
> > > but booting fails with an "Grub Geom Error". Booting after a normal
> > > (manual) "power on" works just fine.
> > >
> > > Could this have anything to do with GRUB or is it more likely that I
> > > should tweak my BIOS, or reparation my driver or whatever?
> > 
> > GRUB does not know and does not need to know how you boot your machine. So 
> > your problem is definitely in your BIOS. It is better to ask the vendor of 
> > your machine.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> For the record: I already updated my BIOS and am now experimenting with
> tweaking BIOS settings. Still no luck ... Anyway, now I am entitled to
> press HP (it's a Compaq BIOS) just a bit harder, if I still can't get
> "wake on lan" to work. If I do have success I might post a solution to
> bug-grub. It could be helpful to someone wondering about a similar Geom
> Error after a "wake on lan" ...

Problem solved!

A fresh install of Fedora Core 1 gave me a fresh version of GRUB (0.93)
and - probably more important - a fresh MBR. After that fresh install
"wake on lan" works flawlessly. 

Please note that the previous version of GRUB I was using on that PC was
installed manually (I was running Red Hat Linux 9 at that time). I
suppose I must have done something wrong when installing GRUB manually
... slightly embarrassing. Anyway, if somebody would like to investigate
how I managed to install GRUB in such a way that I was able to boot
"manually" but was not able to do a "wake on lan" (which I find rather
odd) I would be happy to provide some further details ... just send me a
mail.


Paul Bolle