See below On Thursday 06 October 2005 17:52, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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, There is no hda. Just a cdrom and 2 scsi disks and floppy Also, I did try --with=aic7xxx but there was no improvement - same result. I'm still baffled as to what to try next. Thanks; Alex ==== > -- > ------------------------------------------- > Aaron Konstam > Computer Science > Trinity University > telephone: (210)-999-7484 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Avantel Systems, and is believed to be clean.
