On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 10:16, Phil Schaffner wrote: > List members: Sorry for any confusion here, but we took it off the list > so I could send Paolo an attachment. (Anyone who would like to have the > script, a mod of an old version of mkbootdisk to make a grub-menu > floppy, please e-mail me directly. If there's interest I can post it.) >snip< > I should have also asked for "fdisk -l" output, but will wing it - > device names may have to be changed to protect the innocent. It's > possible all this can be fixed by modifying BIOS setting to change the > boot order; however, on my IDE/IDE-RAID/SCSI system that failed to > work. Thus the following mess... > > Let's assume for now that the disk that grub (when booted from the > floppy) sees as (hd0) is /dev/sda. (If it's on something else, like a > second IDE controller, it might be /dev/hde.) Replying to my own post. Just had a "DUHHHH!" moment when I went back to Paolo's original post in this thread - an eternity ago in the time-scale of this list. He clearly shows that the disks are /dev/hda and /dev/hdb which makes me wonder if I'm off in the weeds. Try it anyway Paolo - just change /dev/sda to /dev/hdb everywhere, in my last post, but I fail to understand why your system would switch the master and slave on the same controller as preferred boot devices. Much easier to understand my problems where I have /dev/hda (original ATA-33 system disk), /dev/hde (large ATA-100 on HPT-370 IDE motherboard raid controller), and /dev/sda (current Linux system disk on an Adaptec SCSI card). Anybody else got a clue? Phil
