On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 15:49 -0700, Guy Fraser wrote:
On Mon, 2005-14-02 at 15:39 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 12:00, Guy Fraser wrote:
>
> > All I did was add a drive, and grub would not work any more.
> > Saying grub has nothing to do with it is complete BULL SHIT.
>
> Grub has to use bios for the first stage of the boot. If adding
> a drive changed your bios' concept of which was your 1st and 2nd
> (bootable) drives, then grub really doesn't have anything to do
> with it. You need to install a boot loader on the drive that
> bios will boot.
>
> If bios is still booting the initial grub loader, then it is
> a grub issue, but just involves setting the configuration to
> find where your /boot partition now using grub's non-Linux
> oriented device names.
>
I am using an ASUS P4PE and it has good support for many
different boot scenarios. My machine was happily booting
from the Promise TX2 PCI card until I added another drive.
> > I ended up having to re-install on a PATA drive to get
> > FC3 working again.
>
> That should only be necessary if your bios won't boot the
> SATA.
I agree, but I read all the grub {grub legacy} documentation
and tried many things. The documentation does not have a lot
of troubleshooting information, and grub has very poor error
reporting. I would be more helpful if it mentioned which file
or partition could not be found rather than just; Error 15 or
Error 22.
I was able to use grub-install without errors and many times
used :
# grub
> root (hd4,0)
> find /grub/stage1
(hd4,0)
> setup (hd4)
...
> quit
I changed bios settings and moved the drive around, put it
on different controllers, changed the device.map and menu.lst
settings. All I ever got was screens full of grub, error 15
and error 22. After spending all weekend, I gave up and
reconfigured to boot from a PATA drive then re-installed onto
that drive.
If you had both PATA and SATA drives, it may be that the MBR was on the
PATA drive and changing the device locations on the SATA bus would be a
problem.
Don't blame grub, blame your changing hardware config.
Maybe the new version of grub will be better, I don't know
and to be completely honest I don't care. I have wasted too
much time with this version. Insolent remarks from certain
people and the lack of any new suggestions leave me with
no more stomach for grub. If I wanted a belly full of grub
I would go on fear factor, but alas I don't, I just want a
FC3 machine that works when I want to use it.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> les(a)futuresource.com
>
Have a nice day.