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