On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 19:08:20 +0000, michael wrote:
On 21 Mar 2008, at 17:36, Florian Kulzer wrote:
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 20:33:50 +0000, michael wrote:
I've a Asus A8V mobo which has a Promise FastTrak 378
controller,
nominally for RAID but I can set it to 'IDE mode' in the
BIOS.
[...]
Did you try to boot your system with the controller set to normal
operation (i.e. not IDE-mode) in the BIOS?
[...]
it fell over at the Grub loading stage
I think that might mean that the system recognized the FastTrak-
attached
drive(s) and tried to boot from it/them. It is, however, not clear
to me
whether it would see two separate drives under these conditions or one
drive with hardware RAID working.
If you want to investigate this further then you probably have to
switch
your entire setup to using partition labels or UUIDs, to be imune
to the
effects of /dev/hd? reshuffling (or try a liveCD as I suggested
earlier).