----- Original Message ----- From: alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2007 3:51 pm Subject: Re: Boot problems (still) [SOLVED] To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, zephod@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Mikkel, > > > >>> I will try the --remap option. I have already tried hd numbers > >> all the > >>> way up to 9 with no luck. > >>> > >> This sounds like the BIOS may not be giving it a number, unless you > >> boot from it. The fact that Grub does not see it tends to support > >> this. > > > > I think you are onto something here. At lunch I went into the > BIOS and > > changed the priority of the drives so that my IDE drive is now the > > first drive and the SATA drive is second. FC6 now boots. Yea!! > > > > The strange thing is that I didn't change GRUB's device.map file > which> still says that hd0 is /dev/sda and hd1 is /dev/hdk, > meanwhile my > > grub.conf file says to boot from hd0. (I had been experimenting with > > diffferent settings and I need to go back and correct all this now.) > > When I shut down FC6, it trashed my video memory (big horizontal > > dashes all over the screen) and I had to power off but when I > > restarted I used the BIOS menu to boot the Windows partition which > > worked just fine. I will experiment some more tonight. > > I have encountered this as well. Sometime between FC4 and FC6, > how it > paid attention to the BIOS settings changed. Looking at the > settings, it > should have never worked with FC4, but it did. > > You wouldn't happen to have an Intel motherboard? > No, it's an ASUS P5G2 Delux. Steve
