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kevin writes: > On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 15:10 +0100, Ross Bearman wrote: >> If you can boot from a LiveCD you could try reinstalling GRUB? The >> only times I've received error 22 is when the partition containing >> GRUBs configuration files had been deleted. >> Regards, Ross Bearman >> >> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:43 PM, kevin <kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 00:25 +0100, jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> >> Hi, everyone. I've just invested in a Tyan dual processor mother board. The >> >> problem is I can't get it to boot an OS. It goes through the boot sequence >> >> nicely then just before I expect it to start running the OS I get; >> >> >> >> GRUB Loading. Please wait..... >> >> Erros 22 >> >> >> >> >> >> I thought it was interesting that the board seems to have a GRUB bootloader >> >> and that someone from here would be able to enlighten me as to what I might >> >> need to do in order to get the boart to boot an OS. >> >> Cheers, Jon Davey. >> > >> > Are you running SATA or IDE disks? >> > Have you set the Bios to boot SATA? >> > some bios's only look for IDE unless told first. > > Regards > > Kevin Lucas >> > Are the disks in the right place on the Cables? > I have had problems with a disk Set to be Primary on the jumpers, but on > the slave part of the cable ie "the first connector coming up from the > MoBo". so wouldn't boot! > putting it on the end of the Cable cured the error! > Regards > Kevin Lucas ....I think I've got it! I tried using my old HDD and it booted no problem so now I'm thinking it's something to do with the size/number of cylinders that my harddrives have. The new ones are too big and the old BIOS can't handle them....what I reckon anyway. Any ideas what I should do about this? Cheers, Jon Davey. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html