Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 11:28 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
Here is what worked for years: The Grub was on disk hd0 and Linux
was on hd0,0 thru 6 and hd1,0 thru 7. The BIOS could find all the Linux
/boot/grub/ without fail.
Now I have just one hard drive all set in the BIOS setup and I went
up in the F7 Rescue cd and told grub the following:
Grub> root (hd0,5)
Grub> setup (hd0)
Grub> quit
This worked according to the written info from grub. But It would not
work. I would get a bios error.
So I installed FC6 basic in the (hd0,0) partition and it worked
fine. Then I added the directions to this F7 and of course Grub found
it. Here I am again on the old computer.
This would work only if the grub boot block was partition 5 and you had
another boot loader that would know to go to partition 5 to look for the
grub boot block. I can't believe you read instructions that told you to
do this.
Well as it works out I found out how to have the root 10,000
cylinders away from the MBR and it works just fine with my old bios.
Right now I'm using grub in partition /dev/sda6/ to boot and it works
fine because while in /dev/sda6/ I typed grub-install and it did it right!
This is why I fear an error on my part or a bug for grub.
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