Re: tray open or drive not ready
On (23/06/03 11:22), Kent West wrote:
> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:22:38 -0500
> From: Kent West <westk@acu.edu>
> Subject: tray open or drive not ready
> To: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org,
> debian users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Reply-To: westk@acu.edu
>
> I've been trying to install grub on my hard drive (which is /dev/hdc in
> Linux-land), and not having any success.
>
> I've booted into the Hurd, and run "grub-install", but that just gives
> me a usage summary.
>
> So I've tried "grub-install /dev/hdc", which reports that /dev/hdc is
> not found or not a block device.
>
> So I've tried "grub-install /dev/hd0 which complains about hd0 having a
> tray open or drive not ready, and that /dev/hd0 does not have any
> corresponding BIOS drive.
I may be "barking up the wrong tree" but hdc = hd2. ie 1st drive is
hda/hd0; 2nd is hdb/hd1; 3rd is hdc/hd2
HTH
Clive
>
> So I cd'd into /dev, and ran "./MAKEDEV hd0", which does not generate
> any errors, but then when I do a "ls -l hd*" I get:
>
> hd0 : tray open or drive not ready
> hd0 : tray open or drive not ready
> hd0 : tray open or drive not ready
> hd0 : tray open or drive not ready
> brw-r----- 1 root root 0, 0 Jun 17 08:07 hd0
> brw-r----- 1 root root 0, 0 Jun 17 08:07 hd1
> brw-r----- 1 root root 0, 0 Jun 17 08:06 hd2
> brw-r----- 1 root root 0, 0 May 29 09:07 hd2s1
> brw-r----- 1 root root 0, 0 Jun 18 06:50 hd2s3
> brw-r----- 1 root root 0, 0 Jun 17 08:08 hd3
>
>
> Can anyone shed any light on why I'm getting these "tray open..."
> messages, or why grub doesn't seem to want to install? I've also tried
> installing grub from the grub boot floppy by typing, at the grub> prompt:
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd)
> which generates four or five lines of output, and it _looks_ to me like
> it installed properly, but when I try to boot off the hard drive, it
> just hangs before ever getting to a "Loading stage1" or similar message,
> usually forcing me to cycle the power to reset the computer.
>
> Just for kicks, I booted off a MS-DOS 6.22 floppy and ran "fdisk /mbr",
> and then tried to install grub again from the grub floppy, but the same
> thing happened.
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Kent
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