10-Aug-00 14:10 you wrote:
> Hello there,
> I seem to have a problem booting with grub. I'm trying to boot GNU/Linux
> from a SCSI drive on an Adaptec 2940UW. My machine also has 2 IDE drives
> connected to the on-board IDE interface (Asus P55T2P4, HX chipset).
> While installing Grub from Linux, it will tell me that the "root" drive
> is 0x82 (hd2) instead of 0x80.
RTFM. There are NO reliable way to guess what drivers are first for your BIOS
(IDE or SCSI). For that you can always use --device-map ...
> At boot time, the SCSI bios will assign 0x80 to the SCSI drive. Is there any
> way to override this value?
Yes. And guess what ? It's even described in documentation.
> Also, when I try to boot from the SCSI drive, grub just displays endless
> lists of "stage 1", but no error message; I don't think this is
> intentional...
GRUB tries to load stage 2 (or stage 1.5) from 0x82 as it was told in
installation time. But stage 2 (or stage 1.5) is not there...
