fedora boot problem (grub?)

[Alex @ Avantel Systems]

See below

On Thursday 06 October 2005 17:52, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:54:14PM -0800, gary wrote:
> > alex wrote:
> > > though my bios recognized my scsi disks, my Fedora install needed me to
> > > load drivers manually otherwise the scsi disks were not found.  After
> > > that, the install completes without further problems.  I asked that
> > > grub be used and installed on the mbr.
> > >
> > > After reboot I get "Operating System not found".
> > >
> > > Using linux rescue (again with noprobe so I can load the driver), I
> > > tried rewriting to the boot sector and although grub claims success,
> > > the results are the same - can't boot.  I've tried copying stage 1&2 to
> > > a floppy to make it do the boot but I get a grub prompt after stage 2
> > > is loaded.
> > >
> > > The driver I needed during install is listed in modprobe.conf (aic7xxx)
> > > and I have tried re-creating initrd in various configurations
> > > (--preload=aic7xxx, --omit-raid-modules, etc) all with the same result
> > > - can't boot
> >
> > I've often got that (operating system not found) error booting trying to
> > boot one hard drive when the bios is set to boot another. check bios.
> >
> > Is grub on the scsi disks or hda ?
> >
> > gary
>
> I did not catch this the first time. If you have scsi and hdx disks I
> seem to remember that the hda is booted from before the scsi by the
> BIOS unless you change the order explicitly. How I ma not sure.
> That would explain why it can't find your operating system if it is on
> the scsi disk,

There is no hda. Just a cdrom and 2 scsi disks and floppy

Also,  I did try --with=aic7xxx but there was no improvement - same result.  

I'm still baffled as to what to try next.

Thanks;

Alex
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