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 _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
