On 2/16/07, Dan Hensley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip]
All I know is that I now doubt that my hard drive is the problem. It's working fine now. GRUB boots. About the only thing I can think of that I did was turn on SATA channel 2 in the BIOS (was off because I only have 1 SATA drive), and changed drive boot order in the BIOS so the SATA drive is first in the list. I have an IDE drive on as well that I use for nightly rsync backups, but it's not bootable as far as I know.
Umm... this could be a problem. Changing the drive order in the BIOS can confuse GRUB. GRUB is very low-level and uses the BIOS to access disks. If you change the drive order, GRUB could then be pointing at the wrong drive, and thus will not work.
> Your drive was questionable, as you found out. You may have a bad RAM > stick (pop your sticks out, reseat them and run memtest86) or your power > supply may be getting weak (slap on a DMM and check it). You'd be > amazed at how weird a machine can get if the power supply is dying. My power supply died several months ago, so I replaced it with a new Antec one. So I doubt that's it. I haven't run memtest86 recently.
A power supplying dying can wreak havoc on a system. I would test all of your components that were attached to that PSU as best you can. It could have damaged anything it was attached to when it failed. Jonathan
