BIOS cause "GRUB hard disk error"

[Frank Jiang]

I have dual boot windows XP and 2000. XP is on my secondary HDD (hdc1). I installed RadHat 7.2 on hdc3. I use GRUB.

 

Now I can only boot from my floppy disk into Linux. I have tried both ways, installing GRUB into MBR and installing GRUB at fist sector of hdc3 and let ntldr load Linux from bootsect.lnx. Unfortunately, both way I got same "GRUB hard disk error".

 

I checked GRUB manual. I finally realize that the problem is cause by BIOS. Because the BIOS doesn't support the second 80GB HDD,I've already set iit as NONE in BIOS. XP get around it by using atapi.sys, so I can dual boot windows XP and 2K. But GRUB seems cannot recognize the HDD geometry w/o the help of BIOS.

 

I read that CRV version of GRUB might get around BIOS problem. Could you give me some instruction?

 

I have a motherboard with 1998 Award BIOS. I cannot find both the manufacture and BIOS upgrade. I don't want to upgrade it at a cost of a new motherboard.

 

Any suggestion?

 

Frank
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