Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Monday 06 December 2004 10:40, Anders Norrbring wrote:
As a matter of fact, Hans, it is.. It's an old Compaq Presario with Intel 440BX chipset and a Pentium-III 500MHz CPU, 512MB memory.
Your idea of "old" and mine are worlds apart! :-) My workstation is something like this - "test" machines tend to be early P-IIs.
Mine too -- I have a K6-2/400, and that's it. :) Switched from a Pentium 100 when I installed 9.0; same main board, though, of the same vintage as Anders's Presario :).
install, but after running doing the kernel update in YOU, grub can't find anything. I just says something to the effect of "can't find (hd0,0)/boot/messages
I read in grub.info that sometimes grub doesn't get the drive mappings right. The particular situation that is mentioned is yours, where the drive order is remapped in the BIOS to allow booting from a SCSI. So, you might try mounting the SCSI you boot from in the rescue system, and checking <mountpoint>/boot/grub/device.map to see if the boot SCSI is still listed as being mapped to (hd0). If not, just edit device.map so that it is; I imagine (but please do not quote me :) ) that the second SCSI *should* be (hd1), and the IDE (hd2). The grub stuff in the MBR should not have been changed when you updated the kernel, but if the device map is the problem, I would suggest doing a grub-install with the corrected device.map anyway. Easiest route seems to be chroot <mountpoint> followed by a simple "grub-install". If /boot is installed on its own partition, I do believe that you need to use the "root-directory" option, eg if you did a chroot, then "grub-install --root-directory=/boot" (hd0)"