Re: tray open or drive not ready
On (23/06/03 16:11), Kent West wrote:
>
> Thanks for the response, Clive. Turns out I was doing things the proper
> way; it's just that something was screwy with the MBR I reckon. (hd0
> refers to the first hard drive that the BIOS lists, not to the first
> hard drive on the first IDE port -- go figure).
>
> Anyway, I finally got tired of fighting it, and wiped the partitions and
> repartitioned (using slightly different sizes to make sure I didn't just
> resurrect the old setup) and reinstalled the Hurd, and this time grub
> installed to the hard drive like it was supposed to. I have no explanation.
>
> I'm going to wipe it once more and do it again, just for experimentation
> purposes, before continuing on into Hurd-land.
I do like GRUB (I use LILO on two servers) for dual boot systems - but I
can't say I really understand it yet ;)
Good luck with Hurd
Clive
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