Les Mikesell wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
Grub is bad period! I used a rescue cd and when up I typed grub
and it came up after a while and I typed this:
grub> root (hd1,5)
it said it was a linux partition
This should be where your /boot partition is. And it is best to use
the 1st partition, especially on older PCs where the bios may not be
able to boot from cylinders about 1024.
grub> setup (hd1)
here it wrote out a lot of things that included that it was putting
stage 1 on (hd1). I assumbed wrong that grub would use stage 1 on
(hd1) but it refuses to use it!
Grub will not ever boot from a stage 1 on (hd1) period.
It isn't up to grub to load the 1st stage. Bios has to do that, and
if your bios does let you boot from your second drive it will remap it
as drive 0 for stage 1 to make bios requests.
To get grub to work I will have to put a stage 1 on the new (hd0)
hard drive. What a stupid system!
That's a bios issue. Grub will happily install things where you tell
it. You might be installing a disk that you are planning to move to a
different position or computer.
Good god, your telling me this bios which is 9 years old is just now
dead? Your saying no-one has ever got a grub to use (hd1)? I think your
full of it.
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
