I've had similar problems with a couple test machines on my network. I was not using udev but manually creating the devices in the /dev directory. Once I switched to using udev, the problem was solved.
-Tyler On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 06:10, TheOldFellow wrote: > I'm having some problems with grub (and others) on my old i586. It's a > Fujitsu ErgoPro with a Pentium MMX 200Mhz. > > Grub installs happilly on the disk, an NEC DSE2100A, CHS=4092/16/63, but > grub hangs when booted from it after printing 'GRUB '. The problem is > that bios thinks this drive is CHS=1023,64,63 - and the bios cannot be > told otherwise (trust me I've tried), and cannot be updated easily. > > Fortunately, the kernel (2.6.11.12 atm) correctly identifies the disk, > so booting from a grub-floppy works OK, and the machine works fine as a > firewall/mail-server/web-server. > > All the partition utilities wrongly identify the disk as 1023,64,63 > however - which is somewhat concerning. > > I have done some research to find out if I can convince grub to ignore > the bios and trust me. But have had no luck. > > Has anyone any ideas? > > R. > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
