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Re: grub not seeing sata drive



On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 10:30 -0700, Lucas Albers wrote:
> Here's a question for you.  I Debian earlier on a machine at home that has
> SATA drives.  The SATA drives are configured as IDE-3 and IDE-4 Master's. 
> It installs fine, but when it boots, GRUB apparently can't find the config
> file.  It defaults to a text mode prompt GRUB>.  It I enter
> 
>    root (hd2,0)
>    configfile grub/grub.conf
> 
> it pops up the normal graphical GRUB menu and boots fine.
> Internally, (hd2,0) is /dev/sda1. I tried setup (hd2) and that didn't make
> any difference.  So, it seems that GRUB can read the MBR from the drive,
> but can't or won't look for config file on the same drive. Have you seen
> anything like this?

Yes; I think so. When I put Sarge on my system, the SATA drive
disappeared. I recompiled the kernel (2.4) several times, but could
never get it right. I reinstalled Sarge with the 2.6 kernel, and all is
well.

-- 
Glenn English
ghe@slsware.com



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