John Woollatt wrote: > I'm trying to install sarge (release candidate 2 with 2.6 kernel) on a > PC using Promise's S150 SX4-M SATA RAID controller and three 300G > Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA HDDs. There are no other operating systems > on the system. I can configure the software in the initial installation > phase but when the computer tries to reboot onto the HDD(s) themselves, > the computer pauses indefinately with the following messages with either > LILO or GRUB: > > * L 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 (several lines worth of 99's) > > * GRUB loading 1.5, please wait. > > I'm installing GNU/Linux on the first drive (/dev/sda) of the three > drives as I intend to use software raid 5 eventually. I've even > initialised the MBR (using 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 > count=1'). If I install Redhat 9.0 with Promise's Redhat driver or > Windows XP, the computer boots up fine. > > I would appreciate some comments and assistance. Try making a small (few hundred megabytes or less) /boot partition as the first partition on the drive. -- see shy jo
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