Re: Alternative booting

[Karl Larsen <k5di zianet com>]

David Krings wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I gave up on getting GRUB to behave consistently in my setup. I 
> squarely blame GRUB for that as there is no reason not to work properly.
> Anyhow, what are the other reliable boot options other than a boot 
> loader installed in MBR?
>
> I recall from the early Linux days boot floppies as well as booting 
> from Windows was an option. Either way sucks, but is better than what 
> I got now.
>
> Any hints are greatly appreciated.
>
> David
   Hi David, I this morning am having problems with Grub. But I think 
the root cause of the problem is my computer's bios setting. Several 
years ago I set everything up with all the hard drives using cable 
select and it worked.

   Now I want to add a new hard drive and Grub has gone bonkers. I was 
not able to get it done yet. But I think first I need to go back to 
Master Slave which defines for grub which is hd0 and hd1. Right now it 
switches and then the dumb thing can't boot.

   If I take the other hard drive clear out this hard drive immediately 
becomes hd0 and grub is not working. It can't find hd1 :-)

   I think if I can get the bios to accept the hard drives set for 
master and slave then they will not change if one is removed.



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