BTW the MBR is on HDA > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Schwendt > Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 9:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: GRUB failure > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 04:13:09 -0500, Otto Haliburton wrote: > > > We have all been ignoring one fact and that is for some reason > > GRUB is loading part of the boot loader on the second drive. > > Unfortunately, the shown grub.conf does not agree with this theory > at all. It does not contain any reference to hd1, so there's no > single reason why "grub-install /dev/hda" would work without errors, > but the booting from hda would fail. > > > It apparently thinks that linux is on the second drive. > > This conclusion is beyond me. > > > To those of you, who have the theory that GRUB is loading stage1 > > and can't load stage2 answer the question, "how it can find stage1 > and > > then can't find stage2?", when both are in the same GRUB directory. > It > > can not find the GRUB directory period. > > BIOS loads and starts the code from master boot record, but code in > MBR fails to load stage1.5 which is located at a fixed position on > hda. At that point, GRUB does not even know about "directories" yet, > since it is this later stage that would give native access to ext2 > fs. The reason that GRUB fails to access hda can be that BIOS uses a > different method to access the drive, while GRUB maybe gets a wrong > drive Id and hence fails to find hda. > > However, Ashley has mentioned that this computer has been working > fine with a single drive for several months until hdb was added. > Only when hdb was removed, it started to malfunction. So, if it's > not a BIOS thing that confuses GRUB, I don't see why GRUB would fail > loading from hda. > > - -- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/LRZ70iMVcrivHFQRAmf+AJ4qbjgdK+3rpvdCsXgz47rIeh6SPgCfQlWU > sYhitwThMNCKrXCfpgBk1kU= > =kcXm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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