Re: GRUB problem with multiple ATA controllers

[adrian15]

Gerry Reno wrote:
>     GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
>
>  [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
>    lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the 
> possible
>    completions of a device/filename.]
>
> grub> root (hd0,0)
>  Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xfd
>
> grub> root (hd1,0)
>  Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xfd
>
> grub> root (hd2,0)
>  Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xe
>
> grub> root (hd3,0)
>
> Error 21: Selected disk does not exist
>
> grub> quit
>
> As you can see, the first partition on each drive is of type 0xfd which
> is Linux Software Raid type. But, for some reason GRUB cannot see the
> fourth drive at all and misidentifies the third drive first partition as
> fat. So I'm suspecting I've stumbled across a bug in GRUB which is
> preventing this system from booting. Has anyone run across this before?
>
> ATA controllers:
>  onboard HPT372
>  PCI card HPT302
> OS: Fedora Core 6
> GRUB: grub-0.97-13


Are you using grub from the linux shell without having edited 
devices.map? Or is it the grub you see when you boot?

adrian15