I'm having a problem with my debian squeeze desktop. The problem is as follows:
I have a system with a software raid-1 root partition (set up with mdadm) and a non-raid boot partition. The system uses grub2 as its bootloader. 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. Through use of echo statements, I've traced the problem to a block of code at the top of my grub.cfg file: insmod raid insmod mdraid insmod part_msdos insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 The first statement executes correctly, but execution hangs between completion of the insmod raid statment and the insmod mdraid statement. Since this is clearly a grub2 problem rather than a true debian problem, is there anyone who can point me to a resource on grub2 which might help me resolve this? A grub2 guru would be wonderful, if any are known! Thanks in advance, -PT
