On 27 February 2006 17:27, Muthu wrote: > Hai, > > I am using gentoo 2.6.15 kernel and grub 0.96. > > I am using software RAID1 for 3 devices (2 IDE(hda,hdb)+1 > SATA(sda)). > > I am not able to boot through the SATA hardisk(ie. Just the > plain cursor comes). When the grub loader loads initially, if I type the > the command > grub>find /boot/grub/stage1 > hd(0,0) > hd(1,0) > > and it hangs, it is not detecting the SATA drive and not even coming out > from the prompt. > > After the machine booted in the normal mode using IDE drive, I > logged in as root and I tried > grub>find /boot/grub/stage1 > hd(0,0) > hd(1,0) > hd(4,0) > > Now the grub is recognizing the SATA drive. > > Can somebody give me a suggestion why the SATA is not > recognized while booting in the grub?
If you want to boot from a device your kernel has no built-in driver for use an initrd (for the nit-pickers: initramfs) generated by genkernel. ;-) Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
