W. Wayne Liauh wrote: ... > However, I was unable to use this flash stick to boot an Athlon X2 > machine. Its MBR was read--and the GRUB options were shown on the > screen. But when I selected an option (e.g., the rc3), the machine > would go into the restart mode, and the GRUB screen would be shown > again. This process can be repeated again and again. It seems that > the bootloader was not able to read the kernel from the flash stick. > > Also I noticed that with the Athlon X2 machine (which is about two > years old), the os08.05-installed flash stick was NOT treated as a > removable disc. Instead, I had to move its boot priority up in the > __hard drive__ category in order for it to be recognized by the POST > process. This contrasts with the C2D notebook, which recognizes the > flash stick as a removable medium.
First off, please get a real mail client that doesn't send huge lines. Thankfully Thunderbird has re-wrap that handles quotations. Your problem is almost certainly that your boot device order differs, probably due to thw BIOS differences you mention. Go to the grub command line, and do a "find /platform/i86pc/multiboot". Pay attention to the hd(n,m) it prints (I hope!) and edit your boot entry to match. Once you're up in multi-user, add a new boot entry to /boot/grub/menu.lst for your alternate device numbering. FYI, this is a generic x86 grub problem - Linux behaves the same way. -- Carson _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
