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 <[email protected]>wrote: > also sprach Peter Tenenbaum <[email protected]> [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. > > -- > .''`. martin f. krafft <[email protected]> Related projects: > : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info > `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org > `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems > > gentoo: the performance placebo. >
