update-grub help

[Goh Lip]

On 06/02/2010 11:24 PM, Dave Howorth wrote:
> Tom H wrote:


> The problem as I see it is this ...
>
> The BIOS can't see the opensuse disk; grub uses the BIOS to access the
> disks, so it can't see the opensuse disk. I believe that until I break
> this chain, there'll be no success. There are four ways I'm considering:
>
> -1- use the grub2 ata module - after I insmod ata, the ls command can't
> see any disks at all. The docs say that the ata module applies to SATA
> disks in legacy mode but my disks are in native mode. So I'm stumped on
> this approach.
>
> -2- figure out a way to make the BIOS see the disk. I haven't found any
> indication that a BIOS upgrade would help and I haven't found any hints
> of other useful BIOS changes. So I'm stumped on this approach.
>
> -3- reinstall opensuse to a partition on the 'ubuntu' disk. I think this
> will work. The only question is whether being able to boot from the
> other disk will be important to me at any future time, in which case I
> would prefer to solve the issue now. So I'm considering this option.
>
> -4- install grub1 instead of grub2. I haven't checked yet whether this
> is even likely to help. So I'm researching this.
>
> Cheers, Dave
>
Okay, Dave, understand. there might be one more option,leave all these 
as is and install lucid, 10.04 somewhere new and let its grub set to 
mbr. Still, I think if the problem is the size limitation of your bios, 
you may still have this problem. But at least, you've got your other 
partitions intact.

If you choose -3-, hope you set up a separate /boot partition at the 
beginning of the disk.

Whatever you do, wish you all the best.

Good luck - Goh Lip