Les Mikesell wrote:
David Krings wrote:
OK, two things: I did not change any BIOS mapping or drive or boot
sequence. I install F7, GRUB installs fine, GRUB boots fine, I
install updates => GRUB is broken beyond repair.
How is it failing? It may be that your update kernel is just in
a location your bios can't load. This used to be common in old bios
versions that couldn't go past 1024 cylinders and is probably possible
again with more exotic drive configurations.
I did remove drives in order to get F7 to install at all and yes, I
added those drives on later, BUT even after doing that GRUB booted
fine. It is just that after updating the system the whole shebang
comes apart for no good reason. GRUB just ought to continue booting
from the same drive and same partition it booted from before...and it
just doesn't do that.
Also, I do not have plain simple IDE drives, but a RAID array on the
nVidia SATA controller that I want to use to boot from. In that case,
when I specify a hdx device it will write the boot loader to only one
of the drives of the mirror array, which doesn't do any good.
If bios sees the drives as separate things, then that's how you have
to install grub, since it has to call bios to load the kernel. On a
real hardware raid, bios will only see the array.
Les you have bios on the brain. My 1994 bios works fine with 2007
hard drives. You are trying to protect the grub people I think. It isn't
grub but it could be a kernel problem. I might boot to my old kernel and
see....
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