From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FDl4p-0006zR-Il for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:18:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1RGHHbT005986; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:17:17 GMT Received: from smtp1.iway.na (smtp1.iway.na [196.44.136.15]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1RG8t19023200 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:08:57 GMT Received: from vscan.iway.na ([196.44.136.13]) by smtp1.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id IVCSUR00.DB2 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:08:51 +0200 Received: from mx2.iway.na (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vscan.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id B434814A3B for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:08:49 +0200 (WAST) Received: from uwix.alt.na ([196.44.156.156]) by mx2.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id IVCSUQ02.70K for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:08:50 +0200 Received: from uwe by uwix.alt.na with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FDkk0-0005KY-0j for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:56:52 +0200 From: Uwe Thiem Organization: SysEx (Pty) Ltd. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:56:51 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <44031A6E.1090005@naturesoft.net> In-Reply-To: <44031A6E.1090005@naturesoft.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602271756.51914.uwix@iway.na> Sender: Uwe Thiem X-Archives-Salt: c41bf2c3-8fc8-4932-adff-6249ec73fc78 X-Archives-Hash: 65ed835487a3b438f4ae7af13f05d7a0 On 27 February 2006 17:27, Muthu wrote: > Hai, > > I am using gentoo 2.6.15 kernel and grub 0.96. > > I am using software RAID1 for 3 devices (2 IDE(hda,hdb)+1 > SATA(sda)). > > I am not able to boot through the SATA hardisk(ie. Just the > plain cursor comes). When the grub loader loads initially, if I type the > the command > grub>find /boot/grub/stage1 > hd(0,0) > hd(1,0) > > and it hangs, it is not detecting the SATA drive and not even coming out > from the prompt. > > After the machine booted in the normal mode using IDE drive, I > logged in as root and I tried > grub>find /boot/grub/stage1 > hd(0,0) > hd(1,0) > hd(4,0) > > Now the grub is recognizing the SATA drive. > > Can somebody give me a suggestion why the SATA is not > recognized while booting in the grub? If you want to boot from a device your kernel has no built-in driver for use an initrd (for the nit-pickers: initramfs) generated by genkernel. ;-) Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list