On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:54:14PM -0800, gary wrote: > > > > alex wrote: > > though my bios recognized my scsi disks, my Fedora install needed me to load > > drivers manually otherwise the scsi disks were not found. After that, the > > install completes without further problems. I asked that grub be used and > > installed on the mbr. > > > > After reboot I get "Operating System not found". > > > > Using linux rescue (again with noprobe so I can load the driver), I tried > > rewriting to the boot sector and although grub claims success, the results > > are the same - can't boot. I've tried copying stage 1&2 to a floppy to make > > it do the boot but I get a grub prompt after stage 2 is loaded. > > > > The driver I needed during install is listed in modprobe.conf (aic7xxx) and I > > have tried re-creating initrd in various configurations (--preload=aic7xxx, > > --omit-raid-modules, etc) all with the same result - can't boot > > > I've often got that (operating system not found) error booting trying to > boot one hard drive when the bios is set to boot another. check bios. > > Is grub on the scsi disks or hda ? > > gary I did not catch this the first time. If you have scsi and hdx disks I seem to remember that the hda is booted from before the scsi by the BIOS unless you change the order explicitly. How I ma not sure. That would explain why it can't find your operating system if it is on the scsi disk, -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
