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On 27 February 2006 17:27, Muthu wrote: |
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> Hai, |
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> I am using gentoo 2.6.15 kernel and grub 0.96. |
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> I am using software RAID1 for 3 devices (2 IDE(hda,hdb)+1 |
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> SATA(sda)). |
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> I am not able to boot through the SATA hardisk(ie. Just the |
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> plain cursor comes). When the grub loader loads initially, if I type the |
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> the command |
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> grub>find /boot/grub/stage1 |
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> hd(0,0) |
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> hd(1,0) |
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> and it hangs, it is not detecting the SATA drive and not even coming out |
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> from the prompt. |
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> After the machine booted in the normal mode using IDE drive, I |
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> logged in as root and I tried |
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> grub>find /boot/grub/stage1 |
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> hd(0,0) |
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> hd(1,0) |
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> hd(4,0) |
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> Now the grub is recognizing the SATA drive. |
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> Can somebody give me a suggestion why the SATA is not |
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> recognized while booting in the grub? |
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If you want to boot from a device your kernel has no built-in driver for use |
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an initrd (for the nit-pickers: initramfs) generated by genkernel. ;-) |
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Uwe |
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Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? |
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