Re: still no luck with grub

[Daniel Senderowicz]

Hi James,

Since I first submitted my problem, I did a few changes in my
hardware. Firstly I will answer your question: the SCSI adapter
is an Adaptec AIC-7880. I also modified some settings in the
bios, by not allowing it to assign the IRQs. And mainly I changed
the video card from the AccelGraphics AccelEclipse I to a STB
Velocity 3D - Virge VX and added a sound card Turtle Beach
(Vortex I) after disabling in the BIOS the built-in audio system.

As I see the problem now, when the system reboots it comes up with
the "grub>" prompt. Grub commands seem to work fine, but it does
not automatically boot the corresponding kernel. But when I boot
from the floppy the system is now stable, unlike it was before with
the other video card. I will appreciate any guidance for this
neophite.

Regards,

Dan

>Daniel Senderowicz wrote:
>> Hi Norman,
>> 
>> 
>>>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.
>> 
>> 
>> This whole things confuse me a lot. First of all I don't know what
>> the bios (or the scsi adaptor) calls the only hard drive I have.
>> GRUB finds everything below (hd1,0). When I get into the scsi
>> configuration menu I read as the disk to be id=0, which I assume
>> comes from the disk not having any jumper (?). I followed your
>> advice and changed the id to 1, but no avail. I only see 3 options
>> for playing with scsi issues in the BIOS configuration menu, and
>> it pertains to use it as boot device and enabling/disabling
>> ultra-scsi.
>> 
>> 
>>>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.
>> 
>> 
>> It appears that when I installed grub, it properly wrote in the
>> MBR, otherwise it wouldn't be giving me the message "grub hard disk
>> error". In fact I dumped the contents of the MBR using "dd" and it
>> looks like stage1. I read somewhere that this message is related
>> to proper/improper reading of the disk geometries, which would
>> indicate that is not related to the id of the device, or am I
>> missing something? I feel a bit frustrated now, ready to fork out
>> a few bucks on a IDE disk, or should I keep some hope?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
>Which SCSI controller? Model number ?
>
>Cheers
>James
>
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