Przemyslaw Gawronski wrote: >> If the BIOS can boot from the hard drive, then it should not be a >> problem. The only thing that you may have to be careful of is that >> you may need a /boot partition that is conpletely below the 1028 >> cylinder boundary, depending on how old the BIOS is. If the system >> only has SCSI drives, it could be that the BIOS does not support >> booting from SCSI drives, and that SCSI controllers do not have >> their own BIOS. It is also possible that both controllers have their >> own BIOS, and that they do not work well together. You may have to >> do some research to set things up so the correct one is booting the >> system. > > Yes, I think this is the case, when BIOS doesn't support booting from > SCSI drives. On that machine there is also an IDE drive /dev/hdc do you > think that putting GRUB on it's Master Boot Sector will allow it to boot > from an SCSI partition? > If the machine will boot off of /dev/hdc, you can probably get it to work. But you will probably have to put the /boot directory as a partition on that drive as well. This is because the first stage boot loader that is put on the MBR used the BIOS to load the second stage boot loader. Depending on your BIOS, you may have to change the IDE drive to be the master on the first IDE controller. (/dev/hda) If you can not create a 16M partition on that drive, you may want to put a small IDE drive as /dev/hda for the /boot partition. Just about any IDE drive with 16M or more will work. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
