Florian Philipp schrieb:
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:08:29 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Just in case, you may want to try this:# grub <--Also use --no-floppy if it hangs probing a floppy drive that doesn't exist--> grub> root (hd2,0) <--If your /boot drive is e.g. in /dev/hdd1)--> grub> setup (hd0) <--This will re-install GRUB in the MBR grub> of /dev/hda--> quit If this does not help then I am not sure what else might fix it.I thought I had already done this but just to make sure, I've done it again - no effect. If there is really some kind to self-test going on, it's invisible to smartctl. A short self-test showed no errors, either. I'll look out for firmware updates for that disk and will buy a small SD/MMC/CF-card for testing. Maybe I'll also ask the Grub-guys whether they have any ideas. Thanks anyway! At least I know it's not just me who is confused by this behavior.
A small update: I moved grub to a floppy while keeping the kernel images on disk. This solved my problem. Grub's bootup is now only limited by floppy I/O-speed. I'll use a cheap CF-card as a more permanent replacement.
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