Steve Dierker wrote: > I have a little file server running on an Intel Atom with 2GB Ram. Sounds good. > It has 4 1TB hard drives, two of them connected to the internal SATA > controller Should be okay. > and two of them connected to an SiliconImage 3114 controller in the > PCI-Slot. Probably okay. But there have been problems with drivers on some cards. Probably okay but approach cautiously. > My problem is: I install the system without any error or complications > but when I boot the system it always hangs when starting grub. > The last things displayed are: > > GRUB loading. > Welcome to GRUB! > > Thats all. > So does anyone of you has an idea why this happens? That is immediately before when grub will then clear the screen and display either a text menu or a graphical menu. I always prefer a text menu for reliability. It may be trying to use a graphical menu and failing to do so. I forget how these are selected at installation time. Note also that the installation media may be used as rescue media after system installation time. I am not quite sure the right combination to suggest but I would boot into rescue mode, start a shell in the system environment, and then edit the grub boot options. I am thinking set GRUB_TERMINAL=console in /etc/default/grub and then run update-grub to re-freeze that configuration. But perhaps something different would be more appropriate. > Does it have anything to do with the external SATA controller? It is not yet clear based upon the data so far. It might be. Or it might be a problem with the graphical screen from grub. Since you are freshly installing and have no data already on these disks I suggest an experiment to eliminate the possibilities. I would unplug the PCI card and unplug all of the disks leaving just one single disk plugged into the SATA port. Then install again. I would not select any desktop environment so that it will install more quickly and since it is not needed since this is a throwaway test. If it works and you get to the grub menu and all is good then you have a point to start. Then add in one thing at a time and repeat. This will allow you to diagnose where things are failing. Bob
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