> -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Pete Nesbitt > Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 9:36 PM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Trouble with GRUB and multiple HD's > > On February 7, 2004 06:37 pm, Harry Hoffman wrote: > > 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 > > > > > Harry, > I misunderstood, I thought you had a grub mbr on a floppy (have you tried > that? i never have) and that worked to launch grub, then the os. > > When it fails at stage 1.5, that is between the mbr & the kernel, I > beleive > that is when it reads grub.conf. > So when it fails, would that mean it fails starting or ending 1.5. > Could > that mean it can't access grub.conf? > > I just noticed that your earlier post (first?) shows: > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-28.9 ro root=/dev/md0 hdc=ide-scsi vga=791 > I don't know if it could matter but vga=791 is invalid, you probably want > vga=792 > > When you boot with the floppy or cdrom, do you get a raid system? > If not, then you may still need to compile a kernel with raid support. If > it > failed at that point it would probably display a kernel panic not just a > hang > at stage 1.5. > > just some thoughts. > -- > Pete Nesbitt, rhce > I think I have what you need to do put the /boot partition on the HDA drive and with grub.conf in it then run grub-install when you beat the system also make sure your SCSI drive is not at SCSI ld=0. Do the change of the SCSI id first. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
