Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
I've got two pendrives.
I want to install a Debian on them. RAID1.
Ok...
...
After I installed it in RAID1, it works perfectly, ok! :)
When I pull out one of the pendrive [good pendrive], it still boots up,
hurrah :)
But: ...
When I pull out the other pendrive [i plug i
* Joao Clemente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 30 20:09 -0600]:
> >grub is "unreasonably" finicky
>
> What means "finicky"? 1rst time I see this word
Probably the best way to explain it is to say that it is very
particular about everything being setup the way it likes it and if not
then it fa
Joao Clemente wrote:
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3) install into the boot sector of the partition (/dev/hda1 ) instead
MBR of the disk ( /dev/hda )
- but the mbr must be empty too
I am not certain of you're refering to grub, lilo, or both. I see no
reason why grub (or lilo) would fail when installed in MBR bu
Hi Alvin. Once again, thanks for your ultra-fast reply. I have not been
able to understand completly what you've said so I'll comment along your
mail, ok?
Alvin Oga wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Joao Clemente wrote:
...but when one is suposed to get the GRUB menu, I get simply a
"GRUB Hard Disk Er
On these old machines it was often necessary to use a scheme called
Logical Block Addressing (LBA) to allow MS-DOS access to the entire
drive. Many later 486 machines incorporated LBA into the BIOS and once
activated is rather seemless.
If the BIOS did not support LBA the drive manufacturer often
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Joao Clemente wrote:
> ...but when one is suposed to get the GRUB menu, I get simply a
> "GRUB Hard Disk Error" message
grub is "unreasonably" finicky
you have several choices..
1) boot into dos a:> fdisk /mbr
-- wipe it out and try grub-install again
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