Maybe related: IBM e-server with ServeRAID SCSI controller same problem:
one can "see" the disks from a bootable floppy (or from the booted Linux
partition) but a grub 0.93 will not boot, it will just hang the machine
RESET is needed; reverting to 0.92 fixes the problem.
> [bugs #6846] Full Item
> Even if
> you make a complete list of questions and answers, if nobody
> reads it, it is useless.
Are you sure about this one?! I normally start by doing a search for the
keyword that I'm interested in. An exhaustive FAQ increases the chances
of this to work. OTOH an extended FAQ might give
> I recently inherited a fujitsu lifebook 635t without floppy
> or cdrom, not even proper powersupply(had to hack it with
> paperclips :)) + battery is shot. So I used a dell latitude
> to put Redhat 8.0 on it, took out the harddrive and put it in
> the fujitsu. But everytime it boots, it loa
If I were you I'd make sure that I can use grub from the install disks.
That is boot from 7.3 in rescue mode and make sure you know how to mount
the disks. Also you didn't mention WHERE you've put the first stage of
grub? What is the exact config? Which id is which?
OTOH what is on grub.conf is n
I'd go for a small sepparate partition few megs or smth. Ext2 so doze
will not see it. ;-)
You put there the content of /boot/grub/* and /etc/grub.conf nothing
more and then install grub from folppy. You can copy the content of the
grub folder from a running linux installation, you don't need to
> although I don't know if that helps you, I had several times
> problems which are a bit similar to yours. I found the
> following workaround (check the Grub Manual (Sec. 13.3.18
> install) for details of the "d" flag.
>
> setup (hd0) tells you the commands, which it executes,
> especially th
Hi listers.
Can anybody give me a reason for which a 0.93 grub shell will
not set-up correctly a 0.92 /boot/grub? On a xSeries IBM (IBM PCI
ServeRAID SCSI and a 37GB SCSI disk ) I restore a full back-up that has
grub 0.92 in it. At the end of course I have to restore also grub. If
