Re: Grub hangs after printing only "GRUB"...

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

At Wed, 28 Nov 2001 01:34:38 -0500,
Jeff McAffer wrote:
> Then I booted from a floppy and installed Grub into the MBR of the boot
> drive (0) manually.  I did this using the technique from the ln -s . boot
> technique from the faq.  find /boot/grub/stage1 worked fine and reported
> (hd1,0) (hd0 seems to be the IDE drive even though it is not on the system
> board...) The setup command executed and reported success.  Reboot the
> machine and still no joy.  The BIOS Virus detection did however report that
> the MBR had changed.

As you noticed, (hd0) must be the SCSI drive but not the IDE one, if
your BIOS doesn't recognize this drive. Modify the file
"/boot/grub/device.map" manually, before installing GRUB.

> I also noted that the 7880 SCSI controller may have some issues with LBA and
> int13 extensions.  After trying all of the above I disabled the int13
> extensions and rebooted. This time I simply got "GRUB GRUB GRUB ..." printed
> continuously on the screen.

What you did was basically the Right Thing to do. Because the SCSI BIOS
doesn't have working LBA support. The point is that you didn't fix
your device map file.

Okuji