BOIS Blues again

[Karl Larsen]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 11:28 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Here is what worked for years: The Grub was on disk hd0 and Linux 
>> was on hd0,0 thru 6 and hd1,0 thru 7. The BIOS could find all the Linux 
>> /boot/grub/ without fail.
>>
>>     Now I have just one hard drive all set in the BIOS setup and I went 
>> up in the F7 Rescue cd and told grub the following:
>>
>> Grub> root (hd0,5)
>> Grub> setup (hd0)
>> Grub> quit
>>
>> This worked according to the written info from grub. But It would not 
>> work. I would get a bios error.
>>
>>     So I installed FC6 basic in the (hd0,0) partition and it worked 
>> fine. Then I added the directions to this F7 and of course Grub found 
>> it. Here I am again on the old computer.
>>     
> This would work only if the grub boot block was partition 5 and you had
> another boot loader that would know to go to partition 5 to look for the
> grub boot block. I can't believe you read instructions that told you to
> do this.
>   

    Well as it works out I found out how to have the root 10,000 
cylinders away from the MBR and it works just fine with my old bios. 
Right now I'm using grub in partition /dev/sda6/ to boot and it works 
fine because while in /dev/sda6/ I typed grub-install and it did it right!

    This is why I fear an error on my part or a bug for grub.


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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