[bugs #6846] Grub 0.93 refuses to boot from Highpoint 370/2 IDE gives out Error 21

[Brendan Sleight]

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                Brendan Sleight <address@hidden>
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                Fri 09/17/04 at 17:37 (GMT)

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I am also getitng this error on a IPC webnote. I will try downgrading to 0.93.
Currently using grub gfxmenu - so may not be a grub issue.






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[bugs #6846] Full Item Snapshot:

URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=6846>
Project: GNU GRUB
Submitted by: 0
On: Fri 11/28/03 at 18:40

Category:  Booting
Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal
Item Group:  Software Error
Resolution:  None
Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  ElFarto
Originator Email:  address@hidden
Status:  Open
Release:  0.93
Reproducibility:  Every Time
Planned Release:  


Summary:  Grub 0.93 refuses to boot from Highpoint 370/2 IDE gives out Error 21

Original Submission:  I have a soyo P4 mainboard which has a on board Highpoint 
370/372 RAID IDE Controller, even when using the controller in NON RAID mode, 
Grub 0.93 just craps out with an Error 21 after trying to load stage 2, it's 
remarkable to mention that i solved the problem by rolling back to Grub 0.92 
that seems to handle the hpt controller in the right way, if i boot with a grub 
floppy into the grub console i can see the hard disk connected to the hpt 
controller detected as hd0
the disk is used to boot linux, and has 3 partitions (boot,swap,root) formatted 
with ext3 FS.



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Date: Fri 09/17/04 at 17:37         By: Brendan Sleight <bmsleight>
I am also getitng this error on a IPC webnote. I will try downgrading to 0.93.
Currently using grub gfxmenu - so may not be a grub issue.

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Date: Sun 05/30/04 at 04:29         By: Kevin Turner <Acapnotic>
I also have a onboard Highpoint 370 controller (on an ABIT-VP6) and am getting 
Error 21 when Grub tries to load the next stage.

With grub loaded from a floppy, it works fine, and I can do setup fine, but 
loading grub from the hard disk still fails.

It didn't have this problem before I upgraded the BIOS for the motherboard and 
HPT370.

Downgrading to the grub in debian woody (0.91) doesn't help.

In fact, even moving the drive to the via686 controller instead of the HPT370 
controller still seems to have problems as long as the HPT370 is enabled.

Disabling the HPT370 in BIOS makes grub happy again.
What did I want one of those for anyway.












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