[plug] grub not booting

[Jon L. Miller]

That would be nice if I could get even a prompt.  This is what I've been
saying is that even though the BIOS displays the correct information,
the drive does nothing but sit there after the displaying the hardware
information.  I've triple checked fdisk to print out how the drive is
setup and this is the information:
             start    end    
/dev/hdb1*     1       50
/dev/hdb2     51      128 swap
/dev/hdb3    129     2435

So based on this my boot would be /dev/hdb1; root = /dev/hdb3 and swap
/dev/hdb2.

jlm
On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 17:53, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> Thats right, if you change the jumpers, its now hda (hd0,0) on ide0. 
> There is no mater/slave position on the cable - thats the function of
> the jumpers.  Also, what does the bios say - is it auto detecting
> sensibly?
> 
> Note that in grub ("grub>" prompt) you can type "hd<tab key>" and it
> will autolist the possible choices (from what it has detected)
> 
> BillK
> 
> On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 17:40, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 04:40:07PM +0800, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> > > Once the old drive is removed the drive is moved to the master location
> > > on the cable and the jumper is changed to make the drive a master
> > > drive.  So do I still have a /dev/hdb?  I don't think so???
> > 
> > at what point was it stated he would change the jumpers?
> > 
> > and there is no 'master location', unless your using a twisted cable
> > like on a floppy (known as Cable Select)
> > > 
> > > JLM
> > > On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 16:00, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> > > > Jon,
> > > > 
> > > > > Question, if the changes made to the /etc/fstab; /boot/grub/menu.lst
> > > > > reflects the system on hdb, doesn't that change when the old drive is
> > > > > removed.  In other words since /dev/hda is removed does this change
> > > > > /dev/hdb to /dev/hba?
> > > > 
> > > > The drive will still be called /dev/hdb, (which grub calls hd1). If
> > > > you remove the primary master, then the BIOS should generally choose
> > > > to boot off the primary slave (depends on the BIOS), but it will
> > > > still be called /dev/hdb by linux.
> > > > 
> > > > > Also does anyone understand the settings in Grub? this system isn't
> > > > > rebooting.
> > > > 
> > > > What isnt happening when it reboots? Grub should write to the screen
> > > > "stage1" and "stage2" as it progress, similar to how lilo does the
> > > > L-I-L-O thing. What comes up?
> > > > 
> > > > The example menu.lst file that comes with grub is farily informative
> > > > for most purposes. (After you've installed it that is).
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > 
> > > > Bernard.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > >  Bernard Blackham
> > > >  bernard at blackham.com.au
> > > >  Australian Linux Technical Conference 2003: http://conf.linux.org.au/
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> -- 
> Bill Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
> 
>