Re: Trouble with GRUB and multiple HD's

From: Harry Hoffman (hhoffman_at_ip-solutions.net)
Date: 02/08/04

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Date: Sat,  7 Feb 2004 21:37:21 -0500

    Hi Pete,

    The drive HAS to be bootable "as it is right now". Otherwise I would never know
    that GRUB was failing at Stage 1.5. The odd bit is that the system boots via a
    boot floppy (or boot cd) from using mkbootdisk. But perhaps this isn't so odd as
    GRUB is eliminated when booting in this fashion. I just don't know.

    Cheers,
    Harry

    Quoting Pete Nesbitt <pete@linux1.ca>:

    *> Harry,
    *> This is very strange. Your floppy boot works but the hda mbr fails. hmmm
    *> I think Otto touched on this, but is the drive bootable (physically not
    *> according to a fdisk flag). Do you have a old test hd you could swap in just
    *> to eliminate the chance it is the hdd actually causing the probs.
    *> --
    *> Pete Nesbitt, rhce 

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