Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 16:54 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Is the boot order correct? IOW, is the CDROM placed before other > > boot devices? > > Yes. > > > If it is, then I suspect you have a hardware problem, which will not > > be fixed by putting GRUB on a CDROM. > > I considered it, but I doubt, because: > 1. It's a new notebook, and the drive works perfectly otherwise. > 2. If I start up vmware, the virtual machine can boot off the CD-ROM. > Which tells me the CD-ROM *can* boot a disc, something else is messing > with it. I have a suspicion (this may sound whacky) that it is the > memory. I added a gig dimm - corsair valueselect. I had quite a bit of > problems with my wireless untill I removed the original 512mb HP dimm. > Unfortunately I've sold the 512mb dimm so I can't swap them back to see > if that is in fact the problem. > > The reason why I think this is possible, is because HP was a bit mean > with this particular notebook. They locked the BIOS to only accept > certain wireless cards. I wanted to replace the broadcom with something > that's better supported, so I bought an intel 2200 mini-pci card (HP > branded even!). Upon switching on the notebook after installing the > card, I simply got a post message saying "Unsupported wireless device > detected" and the notebook wouldn't even boot. Apparently I had the > wrong part number.
If for some odd reason, you think it's RAM module/size related, I suggest you go over your BIOS settings with a fine toothed-comb...(though I'm guessing) look into settings like "shadow BIOS", and "Hole at 1MB boundary" (or 15-16MB boundary). Perhaps try; if there's a "Load Setup Optimized Defaults" (BUT... note ALL your orig. settings Prior). May even look into Flashing that BIOS, if you think it's related to some munged ROM or CMOS/NV-RAM code....HP may also be using an area of the HDD to *store* your NV-RAM data, and the ROM BIOS is just a 'pointer' to that *hidden* HDD area. try; # hdparm -I /dev/hda By chance - is that a Matsushita DVD-RAM drive ? (or similar?) > Anyway, considering that, I think it's quite possible that the BIOS sees > the notebook has "unsupported" memory in, and simply doesn't pass the > boot call to the CD-ROM. > > The fact that vmware can boot off the CD-ROM, gives me hope that I might > be able to make some boot manager call the CD-ROM. I just don't know > what. I just don't want to have to buy expensive HP branded memory just > to look at a live-cd... > > Thanks > Hans __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
