Don't know how to fix your problem, but did you know that you no longer have to use ide-scsi? the ide device can be used directly.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 09:50:40PM +0000, rich wrote: > I'm running grub 0.95, as ships with debian testing, on my laptop. The > problem I have invovles my cdrom drive somehow. Basically at bootup, > grub says 'loading grub' and then waits there (doing nothing) for up to > a minute before actually loading the boot menu. I can make it go > instantaneously to the boot menu by ejecting the cdrom. Any ideas what > would cause this? The windows XP loader booted immediately, as did lilo > when I had that on. Grub is installed to the mbr, > and /etc/boot/menu.lst looks like this: > > default 3 > timeout 5 > color cyan/blue white/blue > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-1-386 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-386 root=/dev/hda2 ro hdc=scsi-ide > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-1-386 > savedefault > boot > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-1-386 (recovery mode) > root (hd0,1) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-386 root=/dev/hda2 ro single > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-1-386 > savedefault > boot > > title Other operating systems: > root > > title Microsoft Windows XP Professional > root (hd0,0) > savedefault > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > I've posted on the debian mailing list but no-one had any ideas. Any > offers? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > Bug-grub@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub -- Jason Thomas Linux System Administrator http://www.sage-au.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
