[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi, I'm curious if the boot floppy procedure (cat stage1 stage2 > /dev/fd0) > would work on a hard disk (cat stage1 stage2 > /dev/ataraid/d0). If so, would > grub be able to install over itself (ie setup (hd0) ). The reason I ask is that > I have a grub boot floppy made with the above method and it works great, > however, after installing grub to my MBR and rebooting it doesn't work. It > seems to load stage1_5 fine, but then it says its loading Grub please wait, but > nothing ever happens. My suspision is that my bios is playing some tricks with > the order of the disks so grub is having trouble finding stage2 and menu.lst. > My motherboard has an integrated Highpoint 370 IDE RAID controller with 2 hard > drives attached in a RAID 0 setup. With the boot floppy the drive shows up as > (hd0) and I can load the kernel and boot fine. I'd like to get a grub shell > when I boot from the hard disk so I can try to figure out if my bios is > reordering the drives so I can set Grub up properly.
Well, I'm not sure how the GRUB installation on the harddisk exactly works, but IIRC, the partition table is a part of the MBR and you will lose it if you do this. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
