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Re: still no luck with grub
From: |
Daniel Senderowicz |
Subject: |
Re: still no luck with grub |
Date: |
Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:56:02 -0800 (PST) |
Hi Norman,
>If this is similar to the HP Dual CPU systems then you probably need to
>check the BIOS and the SCSI drive settings. I had an (A500 I think) a
>dual HP workstation at work that refused to boot grub and later got it
>to function by changing the SCSI drive from 'autoconfigured' to a
>specific id and then setting the BIOS appropriately.
This whole things confuse me a lot. First of all I don't know what
the bios (or the scsi adaptor) calls the only hard drive I have.
GRUB finds everything below (hd1,0). When I get into the scsi
configuration menu I read as the disk to be id=0, which I assume
comes from the disk not having any jumper (?). I followed your
advice and changed the id to 1, but no avail. I only see 3 options
for playing with scsi issues in the BIOS configuration menu, and
it pertains to use it as boot device and enabling/disabling
ultra-scsi.
>One could guess it is technically the onboard SCSI trying to
>autoconfigure in conjunction with the BIOS, but they both affect each
>other and the drive ordering as far as GRUB is concerned.
It appears that when I installed grub, it properly wrote in the
MBR, otherwise it wouldn't be giving me the message "grub hard disk
error". In fact I dumped the contents of the MBR using "dd" and it
looks like stage1. I read somewhere that this message is related
to proper/improper reading of the disk geometries, which would
indicate that is not related to the id of the device, or am I
missing something? I feel a bit frustrated now, ready to fork out
a few bucks on a IDE disk, or should I keep some hope?
Cheers,
Dan
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