Thanks for the help but this has nothing to do with the MBR. Once I take out the
ide2 comments from the grub.conf the system boots fine...
slug@nks.net wrote:
> > When I reboot I can see that /dev/hde is found; however when the processes
are
> > starting I get a kernel panic. I currently don't have a server set up to
capture
> > the kernel panic dump but I did write down the code if it does any good:
> >
> > 8b 87 c4 00 00 00 85 c0 74 0c 8b 00 8b 5c 24 30 83 f8 ff 0f
>
> > I've tried variations of the B number (eg raising it lowering it) and I
either
> > get a kernel panic or it hangs after it reports attaching the ide-driver (I
> > think to hde).
>
> > Does anyone have any idea.
>
> I'm just a user, but:
> When you ran grub, I have only used lilo, did you do the MBR thing?
> Can you boot into the drive from a DOS formatted floppy disk with
> loadlin (a DOS program) correctly installed?
>
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