[TriLUG] Adding SCSI Drive Snuffs GRUB

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Scott Chilcote wrote:

> I also tried grub-install on /dev/sdb, the SCSI drive.  This had no affect 
> either.  There's no evidence that GRUB is loading.

in this case, you could try a floppy disk (formatted ext2 
with the grub mbr and a /grub directory) (see the grub 
HOWTO for directions to make it). Then you can boot off the 
floppy and tab/edit your way through the boot command to see 
which drives/partitions the bios/grub can see.

> Has anyone run into this problem?  Is there a way to restore GRUB after 
> adding this drive, short of doing another Ubuntu install?

you can use the grub floppy for the moment, then run 
grub-install once you have the machine booted

Joe

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