Re: [SLUG] Re: GRUG Hard Disk Error when moving disk across machines

From: James Haydon (jhaydon@stewartsigns.com)
Date: Wed Aug 11 2004 - 23:57:00 EDT


On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 13:42, Tyler Vann-Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 23:12:31 -0400, Tyler Vann-Campbell
> <tyler.v@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm having some difficulty with moving a flash disk from one machine
> > to a different machine. The disk boots fine on one machine (the
> > machine I used to build the environment on the disk) but when I move
> > it to the machine I'd like it to run using, I get a GRUB Hard Disk
> > Error. I assume that this has something to do with the different BIOS
> > translated geometry on the two systems. I considered using LILO, but
> > LILO isn't too sure about writing to flash ide drives, which this is.
> >
> > Syslinux only works with FAT filesystems, and I'm using ext2 on the
> > flash drive so using Syslinux is out. I'm not sure about the others
> > out there, RedBoot, etc. Any input on workarounds? I'm looking through
> > the GRUB manual, but it's not offering much.
> >
> I solved my own problem in this case. I made a GRUB cdrom, and after
> waving several dead chickens over the BIOS, it finally booted and I
> was able to get GRUB installed using GRUB.

Hey, why not reformat the flash disk as a ext2/3/jfs/etc linux based
file system and treat it like a normal disk. I suspect that it is not
recognizing the file format on boot. If it's a type 83 then you might
have better luck and no chicken have to die.

James Haydon <jhaydon@stewartsigns.com>

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