I have been having a very peculiar problem since a couple of days ago.
Two days ago, my hda crashed. Since Debian was installed on hdb, I tried
to reinstall grub after removing hda and replacing it with hdb. Since
then I have been getting "Grub hard disk error".
Now yesterday, I bought a new disk. Made that hda. The hdb is the same
one that was hdb before. hda primarily is for WindowsXP. So: Old-hdb is
not again hdb and the new disk is hda. Both are set to Cable Select
setting. In hda
1) I partitioned hda into sevaral partitions
2) Installed Windows in the first big partition
3) Installed Debian Sarge in other partition:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 457656 137118 296121 32% /
tmpfs 128336 0 128336 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda5 183219 20355 153088 12% /boot
/dev/hda7 6728376 2319688 4066904 37% /usr
/dev/hda8 1830261 8277 1724336 1% /usr/local
/dev/hda9 915349 8250 858263 1% /tmp
/dev/hda10 915349 197956 668557 23% /var
/dev/hda11 19225040 1855760 16392796 11% /home
4) Basically, I am not doing anything with hdb. I just mount it
occassionally to recover data.
5) Installed grub (at (hd0))
Now, everytime I boot, I get "Grub hard disk error". But if I do this:
1) Reboot with WinXP CD in the CDROM drive
2) but let the computer boot from hda (do not 'press any key to boot
from CD')
the computer reboots and I get the grub menu!
It is something like as if the boot process goes properly if it goes
though the CDROM drive, but something seems to go wrong if the computer
is booted with any CD.
I would sure like some help here. Else, I will need to boot by having
WinXP CD in the drive :(
->HS
PS:
hda: 80GB WD, 7200rpm, 8MB
hdb: 120GB, 7200rpm, 8MB
kernel: 2.4.25 and 2.4.26
Debian: Sarge