[TriLUG] grub and lilo problem

[David Rasch]

I've had a problem booting off large hard disks in older machines.  I
was unable to even load lilo off a 60GB drive (Same with grub) and had
to install lilo on a smaller disk even though the root partition and
kernel could all be on the larger disk.  It seems to be some problem
with the older bios booting off the large disk.  NOt sure if this is
your problem.

David

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 02:58:10PM -0400, William Villalba <wllmvillalba at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I've been trying for the last 4 days to install linux on my  system , 
> but I am doing something that is preventing grub or lilo to be installed 
> in the mbr. This is the situation: I have two hard drives, a 160 gb and 
> a 80 gb. I used to have the 80 gb for data and the 160 gb for the 
> operating systems--windows xp, gentoo, and suse. I decided to swap the 
> 160 for data and the 80 for installing operating systems. I  did the 
> usual:  installed windows then went ahead to install linux. Originally I 
> planned to install SuSe 9.1--a network install, and after finishing, 
> everything seemed to be okay, but grub did not work. I tried to fix grub 
> by using the "rescue" option, invoking "grub", root (hd0,x), and setup 
> (hd0), but didn't work. I tried then to install Mandrake, RedHat, 
> Debian...with the same result. Of course, I checked the bios and changed 
> some settings--from "Enhance" to "legacy", from "auto" to "user", and 
> played around with different possibilities. No luck!
> Does anyone know what could be the problem? I thought that this was a 
> kernel 2.6 issue, but I guess not because I have tried installations 
> with kernel 2.4, but does not work either.  My system  is a Pentium 4, 
> with a Intel motherboard, a  80gb Maxtor drive and a Seagate 160 
> drive--both ide. A while ago I had a similar problem and how I solved it 
> was by installing Linux first, then Windows and later using a knoppix  
> cd to restore grub. However, I am not too sure this is the ideal 
> solution, not to mention that this one have my head spinning...and I 
> can't solve it. Any help I will greatly appreciate it.
> 
> william
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