Re: MSI K8T Neo2Board: GRUB not recognized by BIOS, FreeBSD- Bootloader is

[Peter Jones]

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 13:53 +0200, rainer herrendoerfer wrote:
> Hello list,
> I'm not really shure if this is a real GRUB problem, but to me it looks 
> like. I tried to install Debian on an USB pendrive attached to an MSI 
> K8T Neo2 mainboard with GRUB, but on reboot the MSI BIOS (AMI version 
> 3.3) moans >>no bootable device detected<<.
> The odd thing is: in all cases another board was able to boot the pen 
> without any problems. Even dd stage 1 and 2 onto the stick was useless.
> BUT: I put a FreeBSD on the same stick and whithout any changes this 
> Bootloader was recognized imidiately and booted without any problems.
> I tried LILO as well, didn't succeed either.
> Does anybody have experience with that board?
> Tricks, tweaks?

Did FreeBSD format the drive differently?  Many BIOSes won't boot a USB
Storage device unless its geometry and partitioning are identical to
those of a ZIP drive.  That is, 64-heads, 32-sectors per track, and a
primary partition as #4.

-- 
        Peter