Erik P. Olsen wrote:
Thanks for pointing to this manual. I've found good explanation
in it.
you are welcome.
i just now looked back thru manual to find that 'raid' was not mentioned,
so i am recalling something that was posted on setting up a raid boot.
i did a search thru past year of emails for 'body contains':
words matches
'grub + raid + boot' 60
'grub.conf' 365
so it looks like i need to change search to narrow down what i am trying
to recall.
The full error message *is* "Geom error". I found it
described in the
manual, but none of the possible reasons seem to fit my situation. At
another place is mentioned that "BIOS cannot access over 1024 cylinders" and
this could very well be the problem.
i believe that this is related to boot up, partition, and locating kernel
files, ie, '/boot'. after boot, linux takes over and there is no limit now.
exact reasoning evades me at this late hour.
also, did you have a look at 'chainloader'? do a <ctrl+f> and enter
'chain'
to find all of info. you must load grub into partition you want to chain
for it to work. [i did some refresh reading]
Not at all, I do appreciate your help.
you are very welcome.
something that is going thru my head and i am wondering, how are you
addressing drives?
master/slave or cable select?
if they are western digital, you need to set them as 'cable select'.
i had some problems addressing my 2 wd 120g0 drives that was solved by
changing jumpers to 'cable select'. i do not recall what actual problem
was, but checking wd site, this was recommend.
it is getting late here in memphi, and i have an early morning schedule.
will check back when i return home to see where you are.
later.
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peace out.
tc,hago.
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