2009/3/20 M. Lewis <cajun@>: > New box, off the 'shelf'. No partitions there unless Dell put them on to > begin with. It was purchased without an O/S. > > Hard drive was repartitioned during the (manual) graphic install. LVM, > separate /home /boot, etc. > > It's not a laptop, it's a rackmount server. I see *nothing* in the BIOS that > could prevent me from writing to HDs. Yes, I did switch from QDMA mode on > the SATA drives to ATA, with no apparent change. > > The machine has a Dell SAS 6 Host Bus Adapter. I see nothing in the > configuration there that would prevent writing to the HD. > > Of course I could have missed something in the BIOS, or in the HBA setup, > but looks like I would have seen it as many times as I have been in there > looking for clues.
Have you tried to install another linux distributions? Is it imperative for you to stick with GRUB? Have you tried LILO? -- С Уважением, Марк Гольдштейн Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
