Follow-up Comment #3, bug #16609 (project grub): Updated from work: updating the bios via grub-install does not fix the problem. The update is confirmed, as grub uses the new menu.lst (switching bewteen a suse 10.1 system on hdb5 and a unbuntu 5.10 on hda3. I will now proceed to remove one of the twin seagate 80mbyte drives (a susggestion of asus support) and see what this does to the problem.
More coming on this I'm sure. What it also suggests is that the error message seen in the bootrecord (just look at the boot record with any symple editor, and ignore the binary unintelligible stuff) is something quite deliberate and clever that grub does, and does not in fact 'trash' the boot record as such. It seems this is a geometry problem -- something to do with the bios. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=16609> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub