Unsure if bug.
Frank Murphy
frankly3d at gmail.com
Wed Oct 22 03:33:54 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 08:49 -0500, Christopher D. Stover wrote:
> Hi Frank. I'm a little confused by your problem. The error you're getting
> now means: "This error message will occur if the Stage 2 or Stage 1.5 is
> being read from a hard disk, and the attempt to determine the size and
> geometry of the hard disk fails." What do you mean by it "Will attempt to
> boot"? Do you have an IDE hard drive you're using separate from your two
> SATA drives? I'm guessing this is less of a bug and more a configuration
> problem with your HDs/BIOS/GRUB.
>
> Chris
Scenario A
1: In the box there is inbuilt the 2 usual ide 1 & 2 controllers. (2
disks, 160gb each)
2: The inbuilt sata raid controller ( 2 disks: sata2, 160gb each)
3: an add-in ide raid controller (2 disks, 320gb each)
4: 1 external USB-CDrom
If OS is installed to 1:, with 2: disabled in bios, it will boot
normally, as soft raid md0
Bios boot order: 1:a, 1:b. (3: mounted as md3)
Scenario B
(Numerals: as above)
If I enable 2:
and install as md0 (previous md0 [1:] having been wiped)
I get the grub error.
With bios boot set to: 2:a, 2:b.
Any combination of install,
with the internal sata controller enabled fails to boot.
ie: install 1: as md0, plus 2: as md1 (file-store)
Have tried manually changing grub.conf to boot (hd0,0) to other
combinations, to no avail.
Booting from livecd (F10 snap 1+2) shows all six drives.
and four if 2:(inbuilt sata) is disabled
Including
Frank
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