>You haven't gotten the point of the question. GRUB is in the MBR from >the install. It has a location to get to the GRUB directory to load >stage1 (we know that stage1 and stage2 and all other things are in the >GRUB directory look them up yourself). So it locates the GRUB directory >to load stage1 then why would it now lose that location to load stage2. >> >******************************** Otto, you may be missing this point...... Grub isn't loading anything. Bios is loading the MBR from the drive. this mbr.. part of grub is being called stage 1.
with the additional info from Mr. Kirchner, that the board has scsi interface on board, I wonder if it also has a self modifying portion in its cmos... (I've seen a couple of these) where it keeps track of the scsi devices and bootability. When there are two devices on the ide interface, one of the first two is the boot device, when only one ide is present then the search in bios continues on to the scsi interface. If the scsi interface has something it has ever registered, this may be seen as another bootable device, or in some other way change the base addressing of the drives. Linux doesn't use bios to access the drives past the initial bootloader stages, and thus could ignore bios addressing problems if booting from floppy, (or cd), because it doesn't have to go to the hard drive for booting. If there are two ide devices, the bios shouldn't (yes I know there are new ones not following these old guidelines) even look at the scsi interface in search of boot points. this posibility could be tested if there were a utility to reset the scsi device tables, or even just to read them. Oh well, now that its a moot point..... I'll never have my curiosity satisfied.... (good thing I'm not a cat!) brian :) ;} ************************************************************** --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
