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dmarien
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 Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 2:16 pm Post subject: SCSI, and GRUB, and BIOS - oh my! |
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My AWARD bios is pretty shitty, but I'm not prepared to upgrade it.
My problem is this:
I have 1 SCSI drive and 1 IDE drive. To install gentoo, I had to make the CD-ROM the first boot device, and then "A:\ C:\" or "C:\ A:\" as my 2nd and 3rd boot devices. I chose "C:\ A:\", so my boot order is:
My SCSI drive contains my boot my root and my swap gentoo partitions (sda1, sda2, sda3 respectively).
When I got down to the installation of GRUB, I tried to specify (HD0, 0) (thinking that was first partition [boot] on SCSI) as my root...
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grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit
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that gave me unknown partition type errors....
so I tried
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grub> root (hd1,0)
grub> setup (hd1)
grub> quit
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and it said that the partiition type was ext2.... i thought that was odd, since it's actually ext3 journalling... but at any rate, the SCSI is the only drive that has ext? file systems so I knew it was finding the right drive.... and it makes sense since my first boot device was C, therefore SCSI is the
2nd hard drive, hence hd1.
I then entered into the /boot/grub/menu.lst file and followed it accordingly.
However, what is the point?
When I go into my bios and switch the SCSI drive as being the first boot device, it's no longer hd1 in GRUB's view, it's now HD0...
What should I do?
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meyerm
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not quite sure what your question is. Does it not boot?
Sorry for my question, perhaps my english is just to bad.  |
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dmarien
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I can't enter root(hd0,0) since when I'm botting from CDROM, the BOOT ORDER is cdrom a c or cdrom c a.
so, I have to enter root(hd1,0). but when I switch the bios boot order back to scsi, a c the HDD order changed, and when it boots, it fills the screen with the word GRUB, and just keeps printing GRUB accross the screen.
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pjp
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Grub only recognizes hard drives, so it does not care about your CDROM. Which IDE channel
is the IDE drive on? It may be seeing the IDE drive first.
If the SCSI drive has never appeared to work with Grub, you may need to add SCSI support
into the kernel.
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dmarien
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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The SCSI drive does work. All the low level, etc.. kernel drivers are compiled in the kernel...
I think what I might try is yanking out the IDE drive for a wee bit until I can figure this shit out.
if I wanted to use lilo instead of grub, how would I do this?
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Edit your menu.lst to root (hd0,1) and kernel as (hd0,1). What Im trying to say is that that you could put " root is a silly buger" in your menu list as it is not seen by grub till you reboot. So edit menu to reflect your state when you boot for real.
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dmarien
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| Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 1:08 pm Post subject: thansk all |
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Everything works now. Grub is actually pretty great.
Does anyone know where I can get some 'n00b' help with the emerge command...?
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