Still not on cooker list at Thu Aug 24 04:31:55 BST 2000, so here's a
repost. Hope this doesn't create another darned duplicate.
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Subject: Re: [Cooker] GRUB not working with SCSI boot disk
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 00:14:45 +0100
From: Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Pixel wrote:
> Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I quite liked GRUB, but since I got a new ATA66 disk and Promise
> > controller, repartitioned and used my IBM SCSI disk to boot from, it
> > doesn't work - all I get is the message `First stage install ...'
> >
> > LILO works fine. I've tried different versions of GRUB to no avail.
>
> can you try changing your /boot/grub/device.map, something like
>
> (hd0) /dev/sda
> (hd1) /dev/hde
> (hd2) /dev/hdg
> (hd3) /dev/hdh
>
> or
>
> (hd0) /dev/hde
> (hd1) /dev/hdg
> (hd2) /dev/hdh
> (hd3) /dev/sda
Thanks Pixel, tried that. It's a GRUB bug. /usr/doc/grub-doc-0.5.94/BUGS:
- GRUB hangs up when accessing a disk via Adaptec AIC-7880
SCSI-controller in LBA mode. It is unknown if this is due to GRUB or
the SCSI BIOS. For now, you need to disable the BIOS support for
INT 13 Extension (that is, you can't use the LBA mode).
This means there's no support for my Adaptec 2940U card unless I use a
tiny disk. All I get is the one liner: "stage 1". So it's back to lilo
for me.
BTW, lilo-0.21.5-1mdk.i586.rpm on Cooker gives a nice menu, but it
installs /boot/boot.b as a link to boot-menu.b, so drakboot can't make you
a boot floppy - it can't open boot.b. "Progress means deterioation."
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