> One instance in my experience is to the contrary. My PII 400 system > will not load the boot loader off my 60GB drive. It sits there and > dumbly refuses to do anything whatsoever :). I've used both a smaller > drive, and a boot disk with grub to solve this issue. Grub sees the > drive just fine, but the bios won't load the boot loader from the drive > (tried both grub and lilo). > > David
I am certainly no authority on this topic, and I hope I'm not insulting your intelligence by mentioning these two things that came to mind about a BIOS that won't load what ought to be a proper boot partition: - Is its position in the IDE (or whatever) chain relevant? It shouldn't be, but then again... - Is the partition properly marked as a bootable partition? Is the MBR correct? I'd just be curious to know, if those things are all in line, what would cause a particular disk to simply not boot.. Did you ever fully figure it out? Cheers, ~Brian -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
