Re: still no luck with grub

[Daniel Senderowicz]

Hi Norman,

>If this is similar to the HP Dual CPU systems then you probably need to 
>check the BIOS and the SCSI drive settings. I had an (A500 I think) a 
>dual HP workstation at work that refused to boot grub and later got it 
>to function by changing the SCSI drive from 'autoconfigured' to a 
>specific id and then setting the BIOS appropriately.

This whole things confuse me a lot. First of all I don't know what
the bios (or the scsi adaptor) calls the only hard drive I have.
GRUB finds everything below (hd1,0). When I get into the scsi
configuration menu I read as the disk to be id=0, which I assume
comes from the disk not having any jumper (?). I followed your
advice and changed the id to 1, but no avail. I only see 3 options
for playing with scsi issues in the BIOS configuration menu, and
it pertains to use it as boot device and enabling/disabling
ultra-scsi.

>One could guess it is technically the onboard SCSI trying to 
>autoconfigure in conjunction with the BIOS, but they both affect each 
>other and the drive ordering as far as GRUB is concerned.

It appears that when I installed grub, it properly wrote in the
MBR, otherwise it wouldn't be giving me the message "grub hard disk
error". In fact I dumped the contents of the MBR using "dd" and it
looks like stage1. I read somewhere that this message is related
to proper/improper reading of the disk geometries, which would
indicate that is not related to the id of the device, or am I
missing something? I feel a bit frustrated now, ready to fork out
a few bucks on a IDE disk, or should I keep some hope?

Cheers,

Dan