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. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/