Re: HP Vectra XU 6/200 and GRUB total failure

[Daniel Senderowicz]

Hi Okuji,

>Ah, Vectra is known to have a buggy BIOS. Please try the CVS
>version. It has a workaround for that BIOS.
>
>> Sometimes it also happened ( grub loaded from floppy ) that the geometry
>> command started printing the partitions and then felt into an endless
>> loop.
>> It printed the four existing partition one after another, upto 100
>> times,
>> when I reset the computer.
>
>I don't know that. It would be great if you could investigate the
>problem.

I also have a vectra model xw and I can't get grub (GNU GRUB 0.93)
to work. I followed the manual but after that, grub comes up with
the message "GRUB Hard disk error". I have a single SCSI hard disk
(/dev/sda)/(hd1) and a zip drive (/dev/hdd). I set the bios to boot
from the scsi disk. So far every message that grub prints out
during "setup" appears to be successful. Is there any way to
verify the installation without having to go through an actual
booting process? Thanks.

Dan