grub can't see any disks

[Peter Surda]

Hi,

I'm trying to get grub working on a Compaq Deskpro 2000 (at least I think it's
a 2000, it's pretty old). I have a cd-rom as primary master, and a 2GB disk as
secondary master (and a floppy). This is so that if a CD is in the drive,
booting from it has priority over booting from disk (it has a lame BIOS setup
that doesn't allow changing boot order)

Long description:

I booted my own linux distro from CD which had the latest grub (0.94) and
tried to install it on the disk. I created one partition (/dev/hdc1) as
reiserfs, copied kernel, initrd and grub stuff onto it, made a menu.lst and
then tried the usual

root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)

Which didn't report any errors, however as I tried to boot, stage1.5 said
"Error 21" (which according to the docs is "Selected disk doesn't exist"). So
I tried to trick the grub installation and did some map and then manually
embed&install (don't have the exact command anymore, I think I used embed with
hd1 and install with hd0).

This seemed to help somewhat: now when I try to boot I actually get into the
grub boot prompt. Unfortunately, I'm stuck there now:

---------------------------------------------------------------------
grub> root (hd0,0)

Error 21: Selected disk doesn't exist

grub> root (hd1,0)

Error 21: Selected disk doesn't exist
---------------------------------------------------------------------

No amount of map (whatever) (whatever) seems to help.

Well, the disk obviously does exist, because I was able to get this far.

Any hints on what can I do (except for switching the cdrom and disk
preferably)?

Bye,

Peter Surda (Shurdeek) <address@hidden>, ICQ 10236103, +436505122023

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