On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:37:48PM -0600, Spiro Philopoulos said: > BTW, thanks to Simon Blake for his GRUB mini-howto.
You're most welcome. > Procedure used for GRUB (in case it's useful for solving the problem): > > - Partition the HD. 100MB FAT16 partition is first partition on the drive. > - Format the partitions. > - Install an MBR using 'fdisk /MBR' from DOS boot disk (GRUB wouldn't work > otherwise) Hmm. I've never had to do this - grub installs fine for me on compact flash drives, without needing to fdisk on an MBR first. > - Install GRUB stage binary images in /boot/grub/ on FAT partition, & edit > menu.lst. > - Install GRUB using the GRUB boot floppy: > root (hd0,0) > setup (hd0) This sounds to me like you might have LBA/CHS dive geometry problems. How big is the actual hard drive? A procedure I've found works pretty well for me is: Configure your target disk as primary master Configure another HD with the master LRP files as secondary master, booting into DOS. Have a Grub floppy available. Configure the BIOS of the machine to boot floppy->hdd0->hdd1 Leave the floppy out, assuming there's no boot sector on the new disk, it'll boot dos off your master disk, and it will become C: in DOS. if the new disk needs FDISKing, then do so (generally compact flash comes with a dos file system, so I don't bother), reboot, run format /s /u on the new D: drive. Copy LRP files across, copy menu.lst, stage1 and stage2 to D:\grub. You don't need stage1_5 (or at least, I've never used it). stick in the floppy, reboot off it, run the grub installer as above. This seems to work well for me because lots of bios's seem to setup the primary master differently from the secondary master - presumably because it expects to have to boot off the primary master. So muck around with your LBA settings in your BIOS, and see if that helps. YMMV, of course :-) Cheers Si ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
