Grub Manual ... Solved

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sat Oct 20 19:51:06 UTC 2007


On Saturday 20 October 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Many (most?) motherboards only see 2 disks in the boot process, although
>>> they may let you select from a larger number of choices which order to
>>> try.  So you may have trouble using anything higher than hd1 - which
>>> again refers to what bios is using, not a particular ide position.  And
>>> you may have non-bootable disks that have no bios driver at all, but
>>> which linux will use normally.
>>
>> I have been under the impression that if the bios scan found them, they
>> were in fact usable, is this incorrect?
>
>I'm not a bios expert and what I've seen hasn't been consistent enough
>to generalize, but in the best circumstances the bios will see a list of
>available devices and let you pick the order to try booting them.  Since
>add-in cards supply their own bios, this may be at the card level or it
>may actually see the individual attached devices. I'm not sure how the
>rest of the disks are mapped after one starts to boot - or if all
>machines do it the same way.
>
Chuckle.  So we are both rowing similar boats, and looking for the sign that 
says exit and _doesn't_ point straight down.  Maybe we'll find out, if 
somebody ever drains this swamp. :)

>--
>   Les Mikesell
>    lesmikesell at gmail.com



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