> > > Remember. You can boot with a floppy and everything works correctly
But you are not using the MBR on DRIVE A when you do that and you are probably using the entire GRUB package on the floppy disk. This means that grub phase two launched from the floppy can recognize the filesystem on drive A and presumably load the kernel from there ( i am assuming the boot floppy does not contain the OS image which may not be true.) The kernel (from where ever it launches from will autodetect the new hardware layout and presumably adjust how it accesses the hard drive. In any case, time to go home......... > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Kenneth Goodwin > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 6:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: GRUB Failure > > > > > Well I'm not so sure about that.. whenever GRUB doesn't > > find it's grub.conf file, > > it just enters it's CLI mode from where you can do things > > manually. This is not the > > problem. > > I've had the same situation happen to me with LILO, > when I > > first installed RH, > > , and one fine day for no reason at all it happened to > GRUB > > too.. I fixed it with > > grub-install /dev/hda, but always wondered how could GRUB > be > > so unstable. This is > > the kind of problem that happens for no reason at all and > > will make a regular user > > lose his mind.. wish I could help more; > > > > -- > > Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I wonder if the real issue in this case is that the ROM Bios > and/or drive > firmware involved here has a bug in it and it is acting > wierd > under certain circumstances and changing the boot time > definitions of what > the drive configuration/access mode/ geometry is on the fly? > Such that the MBR cant find the /boot partition because the > drive address > and/or geometry definition has suddenly changed or something > along that line of > thought?????? > > Did you check for firmware upgrades for your motherboard and > disk drives > at the time? > > > -- > 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 > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
