On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Thierry Laronde wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 11:35:36PM +0100, Csaba Henk wrote: > > reintstalled Grub on /dev/hdd [with > > root (hd1,7) > > setup (hd1) ], > > but when I wanted to boot from it, there was displayed only "GRUB" at the > > bottom of my screen (no error message), and then the system got frozen. I > > So finally I solved my problem but this phenomenon is strange to me, I > > think it can be called a bug. > > No. > If you boot _from_ this very disk (the second one i.e. slave on secondary > IDE bus) this disk is for the BIOS the first one (booting disk is 0x80). > The BIOS loads the MBR of the slave on secondary IDE (GRUB's stage1) whom > you instructed to load the remaining stuff from the "other" disk (hd1). > Hence GRUB tries to seek for its files on the "other" disk i.e. master on > primary IDE (which has became 0x81). > > So, indeed correct solution is to tell GRUB to load the files from this very > disk, not mentionning explicitely what it is (new version of GRUB does that > by default now ; previous version, 0.91 included, enforced a specification > of the drive), or to tell it to load from "hd0", taking this as identical > to "booting disk" (that's why the second solution succeeded but this has > nothing to do with setting primary IDE master to none or auto, except that > disabling the first disk it was more simple to install GRUB on second disk > by telling it the root for its files where on "hd0" --- to achieve this > while leaving first disk, you would have to swap virtually for GRUB's sake > the two disks). > > This is not a bug, this is a BIOS feature. That's OK. Anyway, I humbly advise the Great Grub that he could take the grace of warning poor earthborns that the first solution does not work when booting from the device just installed :) Thanks, Csaba Henk ([EMAIL PROTECTED], not on the bug-grub list) _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
