Jean-Michel Barbet said... |We have a weird problem and I wonder if someone else came accross the |same : | |- we install SL3.02 on Dell Optiplex GX280 equipped with SATA disks. | they boot OK | |- then we execute a small script that defines a grub password for | modifying kernel parameters at boot time : | | the file /etc/grub.conf is modified this way : | | sed -e "s/splashimage/password --md5 ${MD5PASSWD}\nsplashimage/g" \ | < grub.conf > grub.conf.new | mv grub.conf.new grub.conf The real grub.conf file is in /boot/grub ; /etc/grub.conf is just a sym link. So you aren't touching the real grub.conf (I just went through the same thing). | and we re-install grub : | | /sbin/grub-install /dev/sda | |=> We get an error message when executing /sbin/grub-install /dev/sda | saying that it is not defined in BIOS | |=> The workstation is then unable to boot like if the MBR had been | corrupted. The string "GRUB" is displayed and the boot process | stops here. We never got 302 to work properly with SATA drives; try 304 or later. -Miles