Michael Haan wrote: >I don't know what is going on here. I've installed x86 2005.0 on a >Dell Optiplex. I've installed a new harddrive (b/c I took the factory >one for another gentoo box), run through the x86 install, built a >kernel and installed grub. The box refuses to boot from the hard >drive. In fact, in the BIOS setup, it refuses to let me specify the >hard drive as a boot option. Anyone have any idea why? > >
I've seen similar behavior with my Sager when switching hard disks. In my case, the boot list in the bios would show the primary master disk twice, but not my secondary slave! But it never found a bootable disk. Swapping in the old hard disk didn't fix the problem, and it was autodetecting the hard disks correctly. Eventually, I set all the disk types to "None" in the IDE device configuration screen, saved, and powered off. This removed the harddisk entries from the boot configuration. Then I rebooted, set the device detection back to "Auto", and the boot configuration screen came up correctly, and the system booted up perfectly. HTH -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
