Hello again, On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Haines Brown wrote:
The problem was more worked around than resolved. After having no grub modules with an installation on a new disk, whether DVD or netinst ISO, I knew the problem wasn't with the disk. I installed Devuan Jessie more or less successfully on a new disk without the old disk being connected. Then I reconnected the old disk and now can boot either operating system successfully.
Sounds a lot like what I recommended on 4th June. :)
If anyone has an idea of what might be the problem, I'd appreciate knowing.
I don't know for sure what the problem is, but I am fairly sure that if you read up about GRUB2 you'll get nearer to knowing. The GRUB install will look at all the discs and do what I guess somebody thought at one time were intelligent things depending on what it finds. My experience of the process has been patchy at best, especially with encrypted discs. That's why I suggested a clean install on a single newly formatted disc.
Perhaps with both disks attached, the presence of one preoccupies the SATA port needed by the other.
Something like that seems to me to be most unlikely. Unlike the old IDE ports, SATA ports are of course electrically completely separate. However BIOS bugs are not unknown.
Incidentally, the key on which the ISO is installed names itself UEFI. I have both UEFI and legacy selected in BIOS. If I have just legacy, nothing boots.
I'd have expected that you could select just legacy and then do a clean install, although I don't think I've never cared which it uses. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
