A little more information: the Drive that has FC5 is 40G. (I'ts the
master on IDE0) The RAID array is 240G (i.e. two 120G drives). Could the
problem be that grub can't cope with a drive that's that big? The
command "grub-install /dev/sda" completes without any errors.
The first time I ran the restore CD there was also an external USB drive
connected to the system. Does this show up as a SCSI drive too? As far
as I can tell, the system sees /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, even with the
external drive switched off. How can I tell what the two /dev/sdX
devices are?
Also, FWIW, I booted from the Vista install DVD, chose the repair option
and ran "bootsect /nt60 c:" which also seemed to complete without error
but I still got the grub message instead of the Vista boot loader.
Regards,
Eric
I wrote:
Hi,
My system used to be set up w/ XP x64 on hda, FC5 on hdb and Vista x64
on an IDE drive the on-board Promise Fastrack 387 RAID. hda was the boot
drive. I used grub-install to set up a triple boot: grub would either
boot FC5 or the Vista boot loader, which would boot either XP or Vista.
It was a bit lame, but it worked...
I just moved my FC5 drive to hda and installed Vista on a new RAID array
on the Promise controller. I set the array as the boot device. This, of
course, left me with a system that would only boot Vista, so I got out
my trusty FC5 restore CD and chroot'd to the FC5 image and did
"gurb-install /dev/sda" assuming that the array would show up in FC5 as
sda. When I rebooted, all I got on the screen was "GRUB" and the system
hang.
I went back to the restore CD and edited my grub.conf, changing the FC5
entries to hd0 and the Vista bootloader entry to hd2, and ran
grub-install again just for good measure. This didn't change anything.
Now I'm wondering if the problem is that the restore CD doesn't have
drivers for the Promise RAID. When it's starting it says it's loading
drivers for the SATA-Promise RAID. Is this the right driver?
Can someone tell me if the grub can deal with a bootloader on the
Promise raid? If it can, is the array really sda?
If not, can I get away with changing the FC5 drive to the boot drive?
Regards,
Eric Mader
