Grub install broken after kernel update

[Jeff Vian]

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 at futuresource.com
> > 
> Have a nice day.
> 
>