> >Did ya change the master/slave jumper on the HDa drive to > >single drive when you removed > >the hdb drive by any chance? Is this a compaq by any chance > >that would now prefer you switched to cable select? Does the > >drive show up in the bios? > > > >does it actually try to boot? > > > > > > Hardware wise, everything checks out. Without the > second drive, hda > gets set to master (jumper gets removed), and with it gets > set to master > with slave, and hdb set as slave. (I don't believe in cable select > because it caused me more problems that it's worth.) And > no, it's not > an inferior Compaq. BIOS wise, everything checks out again. > It sees > what it has and moves on. And yes, it does try to boot up > which is how > I get the GRUB line on the screen, but nothing else. > > Dropping the boot floppy in the system, it boots fine. > And now that > I've reinstalled hdb, it all works again, however as soon as I > disconnect it (and revert all jumper and bios settings back > to single > drive), grub fails. > > [ answering your second message here as well ] > > >Maybe grub knows about the second drive through Kudzu > >finding it or something, > > > Kudzu's not installed on the machine.
substitute anaconda for kudzu... > > >it is listed in grubs config file and grubs barfs when it > >cant find it > > > Do you see it listed in grubs config (which I posted > earlier)? I > certainly don't. unfortuantely I did not see that earlier posting like i said in my first posting so no I did not. In any case, perhaps grub utilizes another file that has the hardware configuration defined in it and hangs when it detects a disk drive change due to confusion.. I suggest your answer lies with the people that wrote grub unless you care to read the source yourself. > > -- > W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. > > +----------------------------------------------------------- --------- > Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . > 303.442.6410 x130 > IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . > 800.441.3873 x130 > Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 > Arapahoe Ave. #6 > http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO > 80303, U.S.A. > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
