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disk-drive led always lit
From: |
Konrad Schandera |
Subject: |
disk-drive led always lit |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:11:24 +0100 |
Hello,
I want to report some sort of misbehave in grub ;).
It happens over here with grub 0.95 on the i386-platform. The problem is as
such:
When the computer starts up, and the bios is set to search for a bootrecord on
the 3,5"-diskdrive first, the activity-led of the diskdrive is lit for a short
time while it searches for the bootrecord on the disk, wich is not inserted,
wich is all fine and absolutely normal. When grub then starts up and an entry
is immediately booted (within 1-2 seconds), the disk-drive-lamp will never
switch off, for the rest of the uptime of the system. The drive works as usual,
though. I noticed this with 3 computers for now. To reproduce this set the bios
of the computer to boot from disk-drive first, then boot up (with no disk
inserted) and when the grub-chooser-screen comes up immediately press enter.
It was a little confusing to me, because in my thinkpad the harddisk-led it
wired together with the diskdrive-led, and because i always boot one single
kernel, i set the timer in menu.lst to 1 second and was a little confused why
the harddisk was 'working' all the time.
However, this does not affect the operation of the diskdrive nor the harddisk,
and maybe it's already reported and fixed. If so, forget this email ;)
Anyway a great programm, i am very happy we came 'past' lilo ;)
Greetings from dresden/germany
Konrad
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