can FC4 write a boot block to a SATA drive?

[Reg Clemens]

> I never checked this out myself...when you boot 'linux rescue' and get
> command prompt...is there a file /etc/modprobe.conf ?

Yes and it looks reasonable.
> 
> after you chroot...does /etc/modprobe.conf look similar/different to the
> one that you had when you booted linux rescue?

Well, under linux resuce, I dont find a /etc/modprobe.conf, but as noted
after the chroot, it does look similar to what I have on other machines
> 
> after you do the chroot command, is there /initrd directory?

No there is not.

> 
> perhaps you need to do linux rescue and then modprobe -a and then
> mkinitrd to make a new initrd file in /boot for your kernel...I just
> don't know. To give you the exact commands, I would need to know what is
> in /boot after you execute the chroot command.

Humm.
Tho there is no /initrd directory, the boot directory seems well populated.
it has vmlinuz/initrd/config/System.map files for 2.6.11-1.1369-FC4 FC4smp
Ditto, the /boot/grub/grub.conf file has been created correctly
Since the initrd file is here, would it be useful to try the mkinitrd or 
is this whats being built?

So to me, it seems that either
    (a) the boot block is not getting written (but grub-install is happy)
    (b) this motherboard is not looking at the SATA drive to boot (which seems
	equally unlikely...)

Confused.

Whats with the existance/non-existance of the /initrd directory?   
I see that I have the directory on other systems, but it is always empty.



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                                        Reg.Clemens
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