Re: Needed: a grub2 expert

[Peter Tenenbaum <peter.g.tenenbaum@gmail.com>]

I suppose that is possible.  However, the workstation has 2 internal hard drives (both in the RAID-1 array), 1 internal DVD-ROM player, and the external USB hard drive; total of 4.  Is there something else in the system which can take a drive slot from the BIOS?  If not, then 4 slots should be enough to allow them all to initialize properly.

-PT

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 12:32 PM, martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:

also sprach Peter Tenenbaum <peter.g.tenenbaum@gmail.com> [2011.06.25.2028 +0200]:

> 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.

Your USB drive probably get initialised and takes one of the
x (usually 4) slots of drives provided by the BIOS. When your
internal drives initialise, one does not get a slot. Hence grub2
hangs. Not much you can do I think.

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