Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["david rankin" <drankin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "SLE" <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: [SLE] LILO vs GRUB


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> El 2005-11-03 a las 13:26 -0600, david rankin escribió:
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> > > and the new disk is number 3, hdd. I can not install grub there, nor
> > > can I use a boot partition there. I haven't tried lilo yet, but I
> > > might. I wonder if I could test lilo first without installing it.
> > >
> > > The "funny" thing is that the bios does see that disk (although
> > > incorrectly). Even MsDOS 6.0 (yes, plain old dos) can boot from that
> > > disk.
> >
> > That's stange Carlos.
> >
> >    I just installed 2 new 250G drives, installed 9.3 and Grub did just 
> > fine.
> > Who knows......
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> It must be related to my bios, it's a triffle old (circa 2001), it thinks
> it is a 120 Gb disk (and it is 160). Linux sees it complete, no problem; I
> can even boot plain dos from it. But grub doesn't see it at all! I have my
> /boot partition on another HD, because till the kernel boots that HD is
> inexistent.

I did do a fresh flash of the bios in order to handle the new drives. This 
is on an ABIT KT7 that has worked flawlessly for the past 5 years. If you 
can get a bios ugrade, give it a shot.


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