David Krings wrote:
Hi!
I gave up on getting GRUB to behave consistently in my setup. I
squarely blame GRUB for that as there is no reason not to work properly.
Anyhow, what are the other reliable boot options other than a boot
loader installed in MBR?
I recall from the early Linux days boot floppies as well as booting
from Windows was an option. Either way sucks, but is better than what
I got now.
Any hints are greatly appreciated.
David
Hi David, I this morning am having problems with Grub. But I think
the root cause of the problem is my computer's bios setting. Several
years ago I set everything up with all the hard drives using cable
select and it worked.
Now I want to add a new hard drive and Grub has gone bonkers. I was
not able to get it done yet. But I think first I need to go back to
Master Slave which defines for grub which is hd0 and hd1. Right now it
switches and then the dumb thing can't boot.
If I take the other hard drive clear out this hard drive immediately
becomes hd0 and grub is not working. It can't find hd1 :-)
I think if I can get the bios to accept the hard drives set for
master and slave then they will not change if one is removed.
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
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