Paul Abrahams wrote:
I think the weird grub behavior I've encountered really is related to BIOS limitations. In my experience, if the BIOS allows you to use the full capacity of your drive, it is not limited. If it cannot see the drive without help, i.e. setting the jumper to limit drive size, or an overlay, then it is BIOS. In your case, it doesn't sound like BIOS. As I mentioned earlier, my hard drive is a 200GB model and my motherboard is a Biostar P4M800-M7A, with an Award Bios v6.00PG. I'm now trying to update the BIOS, but I still don't know where to get information about the capacity of the current BIOS. I cannot find it anywhere in the BIOS configuration utility.
If all your grub files are OK, what happens when you install grub via the grub prompt? After the root command, do you get back the correct info for your boot filesystem? When you run setup, do you see it finding everything and installing? Since I am running raid1, which grub cannot see (yet?), I install grub on both hd separately. It only takes those 2 commands to setup grub. There is output as well. Could you try those and give feedback regarding its output? -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871