Re: still no luck with grub

[Norman B. Robinson]

If this is similar to the HP Dual CPU systems then you probably need to 
check the BIOS and the SCSI drive settings. I had an (A500 I think) a 
dual HP workstation at work that refused to boot grub and later got it 
to function by changing the SCSI drive from 'autoconfigured' to a 
specific id and then setting the BIOS appropriately.

One could guess it is technically the onboard SCSI trying to 
autoconfigure in conjunction with the BIOS, but they both affect each 
other and the drive ordering as far as GRUB is concerned.

Good Luck!

Daniel Senderowicz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I can't get grub to install properly. I installed RH 9.0 in an HP
> vectra xw. I have a single scsi hard drive and a ide zip drive
> plus a scsi tape and ide floppy. The installation went fine,
> however I can't boot from the hard disk. I tried unsuccesfully
> to install grub but no avail. Here are some of the highlights:
>
> 1) I ran:
>
>         grub-install /dev/sda
>
> 2) I ran:
>
>         grub> root (hd1,0)
>         grub> setup /dev/sda
>
> However when I try to boot from the hard disk it just prints the
> prompt "GRUB" and hangs. Under some variations of the above steps
> y hangs with the message "GRUB Hard disk error". I would
> appreciate any clues. Thanks in advance.
>
> Dan
>
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