SATA boot crash

2006-11-06 Thread Thomas Andrews
Hi, I get garbage displayed as soon as either the MBR or stage 1 is loaded, and the machine crashes. I've just installed two brand new Western Digital WD3200YS disk in a (debian) RAID-1 configuration. I have an Intel PERL 2.8GHz motherboard. I'm currently booting from a grub floppy until I can

RE: Booting solaris from linux on a dual-boot machine with linux GRUBMBR : a difficult question

2006-11-06 Thread Treutwein Bernhard
Hi Ian, just a try: I extracted the MBR from a pure Solaris Grub-machine and attached it. It is extracted with dd if=/dev/dsk/c0d0p0 of=MBR.bin bs=446 count=1 Put it somewhere, where Fedora's grub can find it and try a chainloader (hd?,?)/.../MBR.bin boot from

Re: Booting solaris from linux on a dual-boot machine with linux GRUBMBR : a difficult question

2006-11-06 Thread Ian Brown
Hello, I want to note something, which caused me a lot of frustration untill I found it out (so I hope this will prevent frustration from others): FC6 x86_64 does not support ufs mounting as it is. On the other hand, FC6 i386 does support ufs mounting as it is. Thtere is a patch to the default

Re: SATA boot crash

2006-11-06 Thread Thomas Andrews
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:12:27AM +0200, Thomas Andrews wrote: I get garbage displayed as soon as either the MBR or stage 1 is loaded, and the machine crashes. I've just installed two brand new Western Digital WD3200YS disk in a (debian) RAID-1 configuration. I have an Intel PERL 2.8GHz

Re: SATA boot crash

2006-11-06 Thread Thomas Andrews
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:12:27AM +0200, Thomas Andrews wrote: I get garbage displayed as soon as either the MBR or stage 1 is loaded, and the machine crashes. I've just installed two brand new Western Digital WD3200YS disk in a (debian) RAID-1 configuration. I have an Intel PERL 2.8GHz

Re: SATA boot crash

2006-11-06 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Thomas Andrews wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:12:27AM +0200, Thomas Andrews wrote: I get garbage displayed as soon as either the MBR or stage 1 is loaded, and the machine crashes. I've just installed two brand new Western Digital WD3200YS disk in a (debian) RAID-1 configuration. I have an

Re: SATA boot crash

2006-11-06 Thread Thomas Andrews
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 07:41:39PM +0200, Vesa J??skel?inen wrote: Thomas Andrews wrote: I get garbage displayed as soon as either the MBR or stage 1 is loaded, and the machine crashes. I've just installed two brand new Western Digital WD3200YS disk in a (debian) RAID-1 configuration. I

Chainloading from the second HD bug?

2006-11-06 Thread Andy McLaughlin
Hi, I develop an OS, Visopsys (http://visopsys.org), which couldn't seem to boot from the second HD with GRUB. Normally it works fine as a simple chainload like Windows. It took me a while to figure this out, but GRUB 0.97 (Fedora FC5) seems to be passing the wrong value in the SI register --

Re: Booting solaris from linux on a dual-boot machine with linux GRUBMBR : a difficult question

2006-11-06 Thread Jongki Suwandi
Hi Ian, just a try: I extracted the MBR from a pure Solaris Grub-machine and attached it. It is extracted with=20 dd if=3D/dev/dsk/c0d0p0 of=3DMBR.bin bs=3D446 count=3D1 Put it somewhere, where Fedora's grub can find it and try a=20 chainloader (hd?,?)/.../MBR.bin