Re: Lenny + Dell PE 2970

[Mark Goldshtein <mark.goldshtein@gmail.com>]

2009/3/20 M. Lewis <cajun@>:
> New box, off the 'shelf'. No partitions there unless Dell put them on to
> begin with. It was purchased without an O/S.
>
> Hard drive was repartitioned during the (manual) graphic install. LVM,
> separate /home /boot, etc.
>
> It's not a laptop, it's a rackmount server. I see *nothing* in the BIOS that
> could prevent me from writing to HDs. Yes, I did switch from QDMA mode on
> the SATA drives to ATA, with no apparent change.
>
> The machine has a Dell SAS 6 Host Bus Adapter. I see nothing in the
> configuration there that would prevent writing to the HD.
>
> Of course I could have missed something in the BIOS, or in the HBA setup,
> but looks like I would have seen it as many times as I have been in there
> looking for clues.

Have you tried to install another linux distributions?
Is it imperative for you to stick with GRUB? Have you tried LILO?

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С Уважением,
Марк Гольдштейн

Sincerely Yours'
Mark Goldshtein