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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: SATA+GRUB not able to boot
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:10:10
Message-Id: dtvap5$3us$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot by Javier Payno
1 Javier Payno wrote:
2
3 > El Lunes, 27 de Febrero de 2006 16:52, Muthu escribió:
4 >> > is your sata support compiled in as modules or into the kernel?
5 >>
6 >> sata support is compiled in to the kernel. It is detecting as SCSI
7 >> drive. I could access the disk.
8 >
9 > At the boot while rub is runing the kernel isn't loaded on the system, the
10 > kernel module and the support for grub are different.
11 >
12 > Look for the supoort of your sata chipset on grub homepage or something
13 > like this, or you can try to boot the kernel from a /boot partition in a
14 > IDE disk and then mount the / from the SATA drive when the kernel give you
15 > support
16
17 Grub will boot hard drives (SATA inc.) as long as the BIOS maps them
18 correctly. Is your SATA seen by the BIOS? Check
19 your /boot/grub/device.map and include/correct the path for your SATA
20 drive.
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22 Regards,
23 Mick
24
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