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From: | Frank Jiang |
Subject: | BIOS cause "GRUB hard disk error" |
Date: | Mon, 25 Mar 2002 00:09:43 -0800 |
I have dual boot windows XP and 2000. XP is on my
secondary HDD (hdc1). I installed RadHat 7.2 on hdc3. I use GRUB.
Now I can only boot from my floppy disk into Linux.
I have tried both ways, installing GRUB into MBR and installing GRUB at fist
sector of hdc3 and let ntldr load Linux from bootsect.lnx. Unfortunately, both
way I got same "GRUB hard disk error".
I checked GRUB manual. I finally realize that the
problem is cause by BIOS. Because the BIOS doesn't support the second 80GB
HDD,I've already set iit as NONE in BIOS. XP get around it by using atapi.sys,
so I can dual boot windows XP and 2K. But GRUB seems cannot recognize the HDD
geometry w/o the help of BIOS.
I read that CRV version of GRUB might get around
BIOS problem. Could you give me some instruction?
I have a motherboard with 1998 Award BIOS. I cannot
find both the manufacture and BIOS upgrade. I don't want to upgrade it at a cost
of a new motherboard.
Any suggestion?
Frank
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