Miguel Blanco wrote:
> This is strange. Do you remember the exact commands you had to
give
> Grub to get it to boot on the 9400? Because it sounds like the USB
> drive is not being mapped as hd0 when booting from the USB drive on
> that machine. That would be a strange BIOS problem...
Well, I wrote down in paper some of the differences with the John's document
and the relevant part was:
grub> cat (hd0,2)/boot/grub/tester
(and it worked)
grub> kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8
grub> initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd_usb.gz
grub> boot
(and booted ok)
and the current grub configuration, which seems to work (allways) on the D620 is
timeout=10
title Fedora8initial
kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8
initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd_usb.gz
title Fedora8-2.6.23.9-85.fc8
kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.63.9-85.fc8
initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd-2.6.23.9-85.img
The partions in the usb disk are:
sda1 - NTFS
sda2 - swap
sda3 - Linux
Regards,
Miguel.
That is about what I would expect on the USB drive. I am just
surprised that it does not work on the 9400 when you boot from the
USB drive. I would not expect it to work if you boot from a CD or
the internal hard drive and chain to the USB drive without Grub
doing some remapping first.
Mikkel
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