Re: GRUB failure

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Otto Haliburton wrote:

Ashley while I believe you when you say that there
is nothing on drive B would you post a fdisk listing of partitions on
drive b.
   You really don't believe me when I say there's -NOTHING- on the 
drive, do you?  How about this?  I've actually killed everything, 
including partitions on said drive.  GRUB comes up just fine as long as 
that device is connected.  As soon as it's disconnected, it fails.  But, 
you want to see, so here, there is nothing on it:

</root> fdisk -l /dev/hdb

Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7476 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
  Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System

</root>

   It boots up fine when it's connected, but not when removed from the 
chain.

 In the meantime, you can remove drive b and boot from floppy
and then reinstall GRUB with B removed from the system and note any
error messages that install prints when this occurs because either it
will install successfully or it will fail with error messages.
   I've been over this time and time again: I HAVE DONE THAT.

   - removed hdb
   - set hda's jumper back to master otherwise BIOS complains and won't 
boot
   - shoved floppy in, booted up just fine
   - ran grub-install /dev/hda, no errors
   - removed floppy, reboot
   - BIOS finds hda, knows there's no hdb, goes on to boot
   - black screen, with 'GRUB' in the corner: system dead

   I ran the same cycle again, this time issuing:
      grub-install --root-directory=/boot '(hd0)'
   as the info page suggests.  Same result, won't boot, dead system.
   As soon as I plug hdb back in, whether the drive has partitions on 
it or not, it boots just fine.  I even tried a completely different 
drive, one that has an NTFS partition on it, and the system boots just 
fine with it.  I doubt GRUB is actually trying to READ anything of the 
drive.

   So I ask you again, how can GRUB possibly be reading ANYTHING from 
hdb when there's -NOTHING- on it (or when there is something, but 
totally different, such as the NTFS drive I tried)?

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