Re: GRUB hangs

[grenoml]

Leen,
  Yes, it boots from the master on the 3rd IDE channel (the mb has two
regular IDE channels and then it also has this HPT IDE RAID controller
which uses IDE-3 and IDE-4 channels).  I did a grub-install with the
--recheck option and it remade the same device.map file.  It is
correct, finding all the devices on the system.  I have another windows
drive attached to hdc but the boot device in the BIOS is IDE-3 master. 
GRUB should be booting from /dev/hde.  My concern right now is why is
it trying to access the floppy drive when I see the GRUB hang?  It
should be trying to access the hard drive.

Thanks,
Gerry


--- Leendert Meyer <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 February 2003 22:04, you wrote:
> > --- grenoml <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > --- Leendert Meyer <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 19:26, grenoml wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > > ----------------------------------------
> > > > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > > #          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hde1
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > >         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > > Everything looks in order as far as I can tell.
> > >
> > > Well, to me it's not: the "root=LABEL=/" seems a bit odd to me.
> > >
> > > Why don't you do it like in the comment? E.g. root=/dev/hda1
> > >
> > > That has to be Linux-partition-notation, _not_
> > > GRUB-partition-notation!
> > >
> > > [...]
> 
> > > Thanks for the reply.  Regarding the LABEL arg - this is the way
> > > that
> > > the RedHat 8 install set things up.  But, ok, I'll try it the
> other
> > > way
> > > and let you know what happens.
> > >
> > Leen,
> >   Tried using /dev/hde1 and no joy - still hangs.
> 
> If your root is /dev/hde1, thus master on the 3rd IDE-port, then that
> might be 
> not recognized by GRUB. 
> 
> To verify that GRUB is working: does GRUB boot from a partition on 
> /dev/hd[abcd] ?
> 
> Is the device.map correct? Looks a bit strange, but OTOH perhaps it
> is I who's 
> not acustomed to such a map ;-).
> 
> I'm afraid I can't help you any further here. Perhaps other, more 
> knowledgeable people on the bug-grub mailinglist...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Leen
> 


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