GRUB hard drive load failures on AMI BIOS [Was: Re: "GRUB loading stage1.5" and crash]

[Matt Wilson]

Marc, I can confirm that another machine with an AMI BIOS core is
having exactly the same problem you're having.  Placing GRUB totally
on a floppy works; you can boot GRUB on the floppy, access the disks
including the stage1.5 image that fails to load when start.S tries to
load it when booting from the hard drive.  Booting kernels works from
the floppy as well.

It's odd that the int13 extensions work fine when booting grub from a
floppy, but fail when loading the sector list of stage 1.5.

Is anyone else with AMI BIOS having problems getting GRUB loaded from
a hard disk?

Frank, what BIOS does your PowerEdge 350 have on it?  I'm guessing
it's Phoenix based, and you would be having Adaptec BIOS problems (not
AMI problems, as I'm seeing).

Cheers,

Matt