Re: [Bug-grub] Re: GRUB hangs

[grenoml]

  Ok I finally got something, maybe.  I wiped the drive totally clean. 
Reinstalled everything again just as before.  This time I ran
grub-install on both drive devices.  I went into the BIOS and told it
to boot from /dev/hde (the replaced drive) - no joy still but a
different error:

root (hd1,0)
  Filesystem type is fat, partition type is 0x6 (huh? -that's
/dev/hdc!)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/

Error 15: File not found

  Went back into the BIOS and set to boot from /dev/hdc and finally
joy!  It boots.  Now I have questions.  Why, when BIOS is set to boot
from /dev/hde, and GRUB shows going to root (hd1,0) which is /dev/hde
according to device.map but complaining about fs type of fat, type 0x6
which is actually the first partition type on /dev/hdc?  Anyway to fix
this?  I would like to boot from /dev/hde.

Gerry

 At least it is booting :-)





--- grenoml <address@hidden> wrote:
> Well, maybe not.  I went and checked another RH8 box using GRUB and
> it
> has the same word 'floppy' in its stage1 file also.  This is a really
> strange problem.  Does anyone know enough about grub internals as to
> what makes it look at the floppy instead of the hard drive?  Is there
> any more info that I could provide?
> 
> Gerry
> 
> --- grenoml <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Jason,
> >   Ok, I overwrote the mbr on hde and then booted in rescue mode and
> > ran
> > grub-install /dev/hde.  Checked it with dd to make sure it put it
> > there
> > and then tried to reboot.  No good - same thing, GRUB appears and I
> > see
> > the floppy trying to be accessed and then it hangs.  I'm assuming
> > that
> > during the GRUB boot that it is running the stage1 file.  If so, if
> > you
> > look at the bottom of the stage1 dump listing in my first post you
> > see
> > the word 'floppy' there.  Why is this there and how did grub get it
> > there?  I think this is what is messing things up.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Gerry
> >  
> > --- Jason Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > If you have a win9x floppy handy with fdisk boot it and run
> 'fdisk
> > > /mbr'
> > > 
> > > This will rewrite your mbr (which i think is screwed up somehow).
> > > 
> > > Then boot linux using your rescue disk, and reinstall grub using
> > > 'grub-install /dev/hde'
> > > 
> > > When you restored your machine from backup to the new hard drive
> > you
> > > should not have restored the mbr. The drive is almost always
> going
> > to
> > > be
> > > different to your previous drive so you need to use the
> > grub-install
> > > to
> > > install grub. as file will be in a different location on the hard
> > > drive.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:12:07PM -0800, grenoml wrote:
> > > > Some more info.  I'm noticing that right as the GRUB message
> > > appears
> > > > that the system is trying to read from the floppy drive even
> > though
> > > > there is no floppy in the drive and the hard drive light never
> > > lights. 
> > > > I compared this to another linux system using GRUB and the
> system
> > > boots
> > > > without trying to access the floppy.  It only accesses the hard
> > > drive. 
> > > > Now the question is why is it doing this?
> > 
> > 
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