Karl Larsen wrote:
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....
Until the kernel and initrd are loaded, bios is the only way you can
access the drive all grub does is make bios calls to get sectors. You
can't have a kernel problem until the kernel is loaded, at which point
the error will be something about not being able to mount the root
partition. Grub is a bit strange in that it doesn't use the linux names
for the devices and partitions and you might be confused by the
symlinked location of grub.conf if you have a separate /boot partition,
but otherwise it pretty much does what it is told to do.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
