Re: GRUB

[Jochen Hoenicke]

On Nov 20, John Rowan wrote:

> I recently upgraded my Red Hat Linux to v 7.2.  Not knowing what
> GRUB was I opted to use that loader as Red Hat saw fit to include it
> in this release.  Having done so all is working well except I've
> lost my ability to access the reference partition on my Compaq
> Proliant 5000 R's drive array.  There are 5 drives of 4.3GB each
> connected via a Smart2P (PCI) RAID controller.  

The BIOS sees this RAID array as a single disk, right?

> The reference partition is on /dev/ida/c0d0p1. 

The lilo.conf you included said "other=/dev/ida/c0d0p3".
So it's probably (hd0,2) in grub; grub starts counting partitions with 0.

> Under the LILO boot loader I had
> the option of puting in an "other" option where upon boot LILO would
> allow me to access the reference partition. 

LILO's "other" option is what grub calls "chainloader".  

Try to add this entry to grub's configuration file.

title Compaq Diags
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
chainloader +1


  Jochen