this can't be the case I have a machine here with this controller and grub and it boots fine!
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 01:33:09PM -0500, Catalin Beju wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm experiencing problems with grub in conjunction with HPT 370 IDE > controller. > All my HDD are connected to this controller and I've tried to install > grub 0.90 > using stage1.5/stage2 and refuse to boot (it's hang my computer after > displaing > the message: "GRUB loading, please wait.. ") > After debugging a little I found the problem, it is not from grub, it's > from hpt370 > controller. This controller is also a raid and keeps information about > raid (even if > you don't have a raid setup) on the following sector of the hdd 0:0:10 > (C:H:S) or > sector 9 in Absolute sector mode. The big problem is that on every > reboot the bios > from this controller OVERWRITE this sector with his own raid information > and destroy > the code from grub stage1.5 witch usually is written starting with > sector 0:0:2 (or > sector 1 in absolute sector mode). > > I think will be good to have an option on setup to specify where to > install stage1.5 > I have install manually stage1.5 strting with sector 0:0:11 (absolute > 10) and work fine. > > Jake > -- Jason Thomas Phone: +61 2 6257 7111 System Administrator - UID 0 Fax: +61 2 6257 7311 tSA Consulting Group Pty. Ltd. Mobile: 0418 29 66 81 1 Hall Street Lyneham ACT 2602 http://www.topic.com.au/
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