Sounder 8 installation notes

[James Gregory]

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 10:29 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:51:58AM +1000, James Gregory wrote:
> 
> > I have now tried the installation with xfs, reiserfs and ext3. In all
> > such cases I have been asking that the machine install the boot loader
> > to hd0, since it seemed the most likely thing. In every case, rebooting
> > has started grub and grub is telling me 'Error 21'.
> 
> 21 : Selected disk does not exist
>      This error is returned if the device part of a device- or full
>      file name refers to a disk or BIOS device that is not present or
>      not recognized by the BIOS in the system.

I see. I don't know if it's important but the drives in question are
SATA drives that go through some weirdo bridge thing (Highpoint chipset)
so that they appear as hde and hdg. I suppose it's feasible that the
bridge thing is saying something wrong about drive ordering or geometry
or something.

> 
> grub has a very nice interactive mode you can access by pressing 'c' from
> the menu; I recommend going there and poking around to see what might be
> happening.  It will let you enumerate and do some basic examination of the
> available devices, so you can see what's what.

That's a good idea, but I didn't get a menu. The machine goes through
POST and does its thing, then I see grub trying to load stage 1.5 and
then I get Error 21 and I'm unable to do anything (well, perhaps I'm not
trying the right things but it looked pretty dead to me).

Would it be a useful debugging step to install grub to a floppy and do
this 'c' thing?

James.

-- 
James Gregory <james at james.id.au>
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