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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
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