[Gllug] Discovery Day

[David Reed]

Tethys wrote:

>David Reed writes:
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>>Perhaps I didn't make my point with sufficient clarity. Its not the 
>>installing on the old disks that fails. I suspect, though I have 
>>insufficient understanding, that grub fails to deal with the combination 
>>of SATA and IDE disks in such a way  as to make the multiple operating 
>>systems bootable.
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>That sounds more like a BIOS boot order problem than something wrong
>with grub. What are the symptoms? I.e., how far into the boot process
>does it get? Do you at least get as far as a grub promot?
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>Tet
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You are probably right. At the moment, there is no IDE Primary Master or 
Primary Slave. The secondary master is the Sony DVD drive and the third 
master is the SATA drive. When the two old IDE drives were connected, 
this remained the same under the Standard BIOS Feature. I used the setup 
utility to probe the two drives and I got the Fujitsu disk as the 
primary and the Seagate as the slave, which is how the jumpers were set 
on the old machine and which I was advised to continue. But when I tried 
to save that information, I could not get the BIOS to do it. Perhaps I 
was doing it in the wrong order.

Meanwhile, to answer your last question, the boot process goes through 
that first screen that lists the drives, but then dies when it tried to 
go on to the second page (sorry don't know its correct name). 
Unfortunately, because this result tends to produce panic, I have poor 
recall of exactly what happened and I have tried to avoid it recently.

David Reed
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