Next Question [was: Grub on MBR just won't "take" (RESOLVED)]

David Backeberg dave at microway.com
Mon Aug 2 12:31:00 EDT 2004


If you want to keep that mobo around for some other use, you might consider 
purchasing a Promise IDE controller. The promise cards have drivers in the 
kernel source, in the event that they don't come supported out of the box 
with your distro of choice. The cards sometimes are free, bundled with large 
IDE drives by Maxtor, for instance. Other times you can see people trying to 
sell those free ones for like $15 on craigslist.

On Sunday 01 August 2004 21:38, Don Levey wrote:
> I finally got a little bit intelligent, and tried the drive in another
> machine.  Grub started right up - the boot sector was there all the
> time.  Since I've been using the IDE controller on the motherboard, the
> conclusion is that the controller must have fried along with the
> original disk.
>
> I've been considering replacing the board/CPU anyway. 

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