On Monday 18 September 2006 14:18, Paul Abrahams wrote:
I wish you were right about that. I'm totally baffled by the randomness of the response to root (hd0,7) when I load grub from a diskette. I would have thought that whatever the BIOS problems, the behavior would be consistent, since I don't see any nondeterministic processes involved. But this business of sometimes getting an Error 18 and sometimes getting a valid partition descriptor has me stumped.
This is just a shot in the dark, but... perhaps your drive isn't always spinning up fast enough? i don't think there's a way to tell grub to sleep for a few seconds, but maybe there is. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts