I tried adding a new disk to my Myth box, but it was not recognized. I took the new disk back out, but now it won't boot off the original disk!
Here are the details: My Myth machine has an AOpen i915Ga-HFS mother board with integrated SATA controller, and a 500 GB Seagate SATA disk drive, which has been working fine for many months. Recently I decided to add a second drive and configure it as a backup server for several other machines. I bought a Western Digital 750 GB SATA2 drive for $115 from Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136150 I found I had connected the original drive as "B master". I left that, and connected the new drive as "A master". When I tried to boot, I got these error messages: ata1.00: failed to set xfer mode (err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: failed to set xfer mode (err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: failed to set xfer mode (err_mask=0x4) ata2.00: failed to set xfer mode (err_mask=0x4) ata2.00: failed to set xfer mode (err_mask=0x4) ata2.00: failed to set xfer mode (err_mask=0x4) Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found Volume group "VolGroup00" not found Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02) mount: culd not find filesystem '/dev/root' I tried reversing cables, but got the same errors. I disconnected the data cable only on the new drive, and it booted normally. I googled for the "xfer mode" message, and found a solution at http://fak3r.com/2007/06/22/failed-to-set-xfermode-solved/, to add "irqpoll" to the kernel command line. I did that using vi under MythDora, and reconnected the new drive. At the next boot I got these messages: Booting 'MythDora (2.6.20-1.2944.fc.6)' root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-1.6.20-1.2944.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet irqpoll Error 15: File not found Press any key to continue... Pressing <ret> brought up the GRUB menu with only one kernel listed. Pressing <ret> again returned me to the "File not found" message. Next I disconnected the original disk and booted Knoppix 4.0. "smartctl --all /dev/sda" reported: Drive: ATA WDC WD7500AACS-0 Version: 01.0 Serial number: WD-WDASN0104662 Device type: disk Local time is: Mon Jul 14 21:41:21 2008 EDT Device does not support SMART Device does not support Error Counter logging [GLTSD (Global Logging Target Save Disable) set. Enable Save with '-S on'] Device does not support Self Test Logging I was disappointed about this brand new drive not supporting SMART and decided to return it. I disconnected it, reconnected the original disk as "B master" as before, and booted. But I got the same "File not found" message as above! Since then I've tried: - Using the "e" command in GRUB to edit the kernel command line, to remove the "irqpoll". No change. - Booting Knoppix with only the original disk connected. "smartctl --all /dev/sda" reports that disk doesn't support SMART. I know it does, because I was running short and extended SMART tests on it last week. I suppose the new disk really supports SMART too. - Using emacs under Knoppix to edit grub/menu.lst to permanently remove the "irqpoll". No change. Under Knoppix, I can read the disk and don't see anything obviously wrong. Unfortunately, it's set up with LVM, and I'm not very familiar with that. grub/menu.lst looks like this: default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title MythDora (2.6.20-1.2944.fc.6) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.img The kernel and initrd files are there. So what file is not found? I'd appreciate any suggestions. - Jim Van Zandt _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/