Bill Dearborn wrote:
Attempts to get by the GRUB and blinking cursor all failed. With all references but the DOS boot menu commented out we still were halted after the word GRUB appeared on the monitor.
Within the BIOS there is no listing for the geometry of the Hard Drives.
PlugNPlay appears to have identified my Maxtor 120 and WDC 250 drives, but
there are no listings visible for the Cylinder, Head, Sector counts.
Is there a listing for "Normal", "Large" or "LBA" - you need LBA
Using linux rescue & sfdisk -l revealed that my hd0 has a Geometry of
14946, 255, 63 while the missing disk as far as GRUB is concerned has the
figures 30401, 255, 63. Linux appears to be able to discover the disks and
to get the information correct. Is there any place within the Linux files
where anaconda would have written what it found as the drive geometry? I
know anaconda identified both disks since it wrote a device.map file to the
/boot/grub directory which identified (fd0) as /dev/fd0; (hd0) as /dev/hda
and (hd1) as /dev/hdb
More discoveries: after loading grub via the floppy disk, I issued the
command 'geometry (hd1)' and still received the Error 23, then I did used
the same command on (hd0) and received the following: 1023/255/63 - which is
completely wrong and represents a 240 Meg drive. If I understand this
correctly GRUB is confused.
Grub believes the BIOS. If the BIOS is a bit confused, so is GRUB.
So as a newbie I am wondering where to turn next ... Do I need to attempt to
find a way to re-install GRUB which appears to NOT understand my machine?
Are there other options? Is the GRUB setup command the way to go?
A long shot, but can you include your grub.conf?
I had a quick google and found references to problems with over 137GB disks. If so, the grub places might be a better place to ask for help.
Scott
