Re: Needed: a grub2 expert
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Peter Tenenbaum
<peter.g.tenenbaum@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm having a problem with my debian squeeze desktop. The problem is as
> follows:
>
> I have a system with a software raid-1 root partition (set up with mdadm)
> and a non-raid boot partition. The system uses grub2 as its bootloader.
> Under ordinary circumstances everything works correctly, but when I have my
> (non-bootable) Seagate FreeAgent USB hard drive connected via the
> front-panel USB port, booting hangs. Through use of echo statements, I've
> traced the problem to a block of code at the top of my grub.cfg file:
>
> insmod raid
> insmod mdraid
> insmod part_msdos
> insmod part_msdos
> insmod ext2
>
> The first statement executes correctly, but execution hangs between
> completion of the insmod raid statment and the insmod mdraid statement.
>
> Since this is clearly a grub2 problem rather than a true debian problem, is
> there anyone who can point me to a resource on grub2 which might help me
> resolve this? A grub2 guru would be wonderful, if any are known!
help-grub@gnu.org and grub-devel@gnu.org
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