On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 03:00:14PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 07:09:26PM -0500, Don Faulkner wrote: > > The filesystems were initialized and the preliminary data was loaded. > > Grub was installed. Following this procedure, the CD-ROM ejected and I > > was instructed to reboot. Upon reboot, the BIOS reported that it was > > unable to boot from disk. > > Are you sure that was BIOS? Because for BIOS it is irrelevant whether > you boot from RAID or from usual partition. > > > I rebooted with the CD and ran fdisk manually on > > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc and > > /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target1/lun0/disc. Using fdisk, I marked partition > > 1 on both disks startable (fdisk's 'a' command), and wrote the tables. > > When I rebooted, the system booted normally. > > And for grub it is irrelevant whether the bootable flag is set or not. > > Probably the following has happened? > > 1. You installed grub in a partition rather than in MBR. The disk > contains the old MBR (probably a DOS or Win one). > > 2. BIOS loads the old MBR. > > 3. The old MBR looks for a partition with a bootable flag set but can't > find and emits a message that looks like a BIOS message.
I'm pretty sure I've heard of old BIOSes that refuse to boot from a disk that doesn't contain an active partition. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
