On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 09:20 +0200, Gerrit Jan
Try LILO...? If you have more harddrives, where is Grub on? You must change that in your bios?
The grub works once I get to the HD. The other drives from the old PIII died untimely deaths possibily caused by a faulty power supply. Only two drives survive that system the floppy and DVDRW. Powering them off does not prevent the boot problem. Looks like the bios just does not want to work correctly in spite of being told to boot from HD. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 09:20 +0200, Gerrit Jan
The grub works once I get to the HD. The other drives from the old PIII died untimely deaths possibily caused by a faulty power supply.
Only two drives survive that system the floppy and DVDRW. Powering them off does not prevent the boot problem. Looks like the bios just does not want to work correctly in spite of being told to boot from HD. The BIOS generally wants to load the MBR from the first physical HD (primary IDE channel/Master). The MBR must contain the exact location on the HD where the GRUB stage 2 is. (The same is true for LILO, except that LILO
On Thursday 30 March 2006 12:04 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
points to the kernel).
It is possible that your MBR is corrupt.
The following command will zero your MBR.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
Then you can either use YaST or the grub(8) command to rebuild the MBR.
Remember, to boot properly, GRUB is going to write the physical address of
its stage2 into the MBR.
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Jerry Feldman
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 10:37 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 09:20 +0200, Gerrit Jan
The grub works once I get to the HD. The other drives from the old PIII died untimely deaths possibily caused by a faulty power supply.
Only two drives survive that system the floppy and DVDRW. Powering them off does not prevent the boot problem. Looks like the bios just does not want to work correctly in spite of being told to boot from HD. The BIOS generally wants to load the MBR from the first physical HD (primary IDE channel/Master). The MBR must contain the exact location on the HD where the GRUB stage 2 is. (The same is true for LILO, except that LILO
On Thursday 30 March 2006 12:04 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: points to the kernel). It is possible that your MBR is corrupt. The following command will zero your MBR. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 Then you can either use YaST or the grub(8) command to rebuild the MBR.
Remember, to boot properly, GRUB is going to write the physical address of its stage2 into the MBR.
The drive boots in another computer. The other computers drive will not boot in the P4. So it seems the bios may be the problem. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/
At 03:04 AM 31/03/2006, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 09:20 +0200, Gerrit Jan
Try LILO...? If you have more harddrives, where is Grub on? You must change that in your bios?
The grub works once I get to the HD. The other drives from the old PIII died untimely deaths possibily caused by a faulty power supply.
Only two drives survive that system the floppy and DVDRW. Powering them off does not prevent the boot problem. Looks like the bios just does not want to work correctly in spite of being told to boot from HD. --
I suppose you haven't installed a drive LARGER than the bios can handle. bios's do have limits and set for what is expected to be a maximum at the time even when lba is set there is usually a maximum blocks it can handle check the spec's with the manufacturers site, if not found send them a message, most are happy to provide this information and if it's firmware upgradable will point you in the right direction. regards scsijon
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 18:14 +1000, scsijon wrote:
At 03:04 AM 31/03/2006, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 09:20 +0200, Gerrit Jan
Try LILO...? If you have more harddrives, where is Grub on? You must change that in your bios?
The grub works once I get to the HD. The other drives from the old PIII died untimely deaths possibily caused by a faulty power supply.
Only two drives survive that system the floppy and DVDRW. Powering them off does not prevent the boot problem. Looks like the bios just does not want to work correctly in spite of being told to boot from HD. --
I suppose you haven't installed a drive LARGER than the bios can handle. bios's do have limits and set for what is expected to be a maximum at the time even when lba is set there is usually a maximum blocks it can handle
check the spec's with the manufacturers site, if not found send them a message, most are happy to provide this information and if it's firmware upgradable will point you in the right direction.
It is only 80 gig on a P4 by Micro Solutions International. I did not find a mention of such limits in the MB book. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 18:14 +1000, scsijon wrote:
At 03:04 AM 31/03/2006, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 09:20 +0200, Gerrit Jan
Try LILO...? If you have more harddrives, where is Grub on? You must change that in your bios?
The grub works once I get to the HD. The other drives from the old PIII died untimely deaths possibily caused by a faulty power supply.
Only two drives survive that system the floppy and DVDRW. Powering them off does not prevent the boot problem. Looks like the bios just does not want to work correctly in spite of being told to boot from HD. --
I suppose you haven't installed a drive LARGER than the bios can handle. bios's do have limits and set for what is expected to be a maximum at the time even when lba is set there is usually a maximum blocks it can handle
check the spec's with the manufacturers site, if not found send them a message, most are happy to provide this information and if it's firmware upgradable will point you in the right direction.
It now works as long as there is a hard drive in the second caddy at hdb this without need of a boot cd. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/
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