Problem booting OS on IDE PCI adaptor card with Grub in MBR of hda
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun Jul 16 04:06:08 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 02:47 +0200, nigel henry wrote:
> There's some weird stuff going on here, as (hd2) hdc, is the cdwriter,
> and when I ran grub> setup (hd2) the writers light was flickering
> quite a bit, but as you can see from the output above, the bootloader
> installed ok.
I've only ever seen GRUB count hard drives, it skips other devices. So,
if I had a system set up like with multiple devices, it'd be like this:
Linux device Type of device GRUB device
-------------+----------------+--------------
/dev/hda | hard drive | hd0
/dev/hdb | CD-ROM | (ignored)
/dev/hdc | IDE LS-120 | fd0
/dev/hdd | hard drive | hd1
I do wish they'd get around to letting it boot from CDs. That'd make
new installs easier for BIOSs that can't boot from a CD, or other things
where you forbid booting from them for security reasons, but allow a
password prompted non-harddrive boot through GRUB.
--
(Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.)
Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
I read messages from the public lists.
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list