Alternative booting

[Karl Larsen]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>    Grub is bad period! I used a rescue cd and when up I typed grub 
>> and it came up after a while and I typed this:
>>
>> grub> root (hd1,5)
>>
>> it said it was a linux partition
>
> This should be where your /boot partition is. And it is best to use 
> the 1st partition, especially on older PCs where the bios may not be 
> able to boot from cylinders about 1024.
>
>
>> grub> setup (hd1)
>>
>> here it wrote out a lot of things that included that it was putting 
>> stage 1 on (hd1). I assumbed wrong that grub would use stage 1 on 
>> (hd1) but it refuses to use it!
>>
>>    Grub will not ever boot from a stage 1 on (hd1) period.
>
> It isn't up to grub to load the 1st stage.  Bios has to do that, and 
> if your bios does let you boot from your second drive it will remap it 
> as drive 0 for stage 1 to make bios requests.
>
>> To get grub to work I will have to put a stage 1 on the new (hd0) 
>> hard drive. What a stupid system!
>
> That's a bios issue.  Grub will happily install things where you tell 
> it.  You might be installing a disk that you are planning to move to a 
> different position or computer.
>
    Good god, your telling me this bios which is 9 years old is just now 
dead? Your saying no-one has ever got a grub to use (hd1)? I think your 
full of it.

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
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