I originally attempted to send this 29 Jan at 3:30PM, but it was rejected by my mail relay server, so I'm attempting to resend to provide a follow up on the thread.
> > > Does your installation work, are you able to boot it by other means? > > For example, try using a Grub-floppy, and see if that lets you boot. > > Thanks. It turns out I followed a similar path, but from a different > source. > > Grub was hanging on install (I let it sit in a 50% complete state for > about 8 hours to make sure...it was definately not doing what it was > supposed to do). > > So I went to: http://xtronics.com/Reference/SATA-RAID-Debian.htm > > The instructions there (as everywhere else) don't necessarily say that > RAID0 cannot be used for the boot partition, but I was guessing that > was the problem. Since RAID0 is a stripe-set across multiple drives, I > reasoned that it couldn't load a bootloader from them. To rectify this, > I made my /boot mount be RAID1 rather than RAID0. > > When I did that, GRUB installed fine, but would not boot. So I followed > the steps outlined in the web page above, notably the section where you > start Grub (I did it from a floppy after invoking grub-floppy from an > alternate console during one of my install attempts) and execute: > > root (hd0,0) > setup (hd0) > root (hd1,0) > setup (hd1) > ... > > In my case, I have 4 drives, so I continued through (hd3). > > After that grub successfully booted the system. So, now I'm on to > making a chroot ia32 so I can get OpenOffice running. Ah, the joy :) > > - Keith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]