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Re: ATA66 does not boot.
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erich |
Subject: |
Re: ATA66 does not boot. |
Date: |
Wed, 30 May 2001 14:34:30 -0700 |
Gregory Gee <address@hidden> wrote:
> I decided to look at grub and made a grub boot floppy. But I can't get
> it to boot to my linux hde drive. I have no problem using lilo. hde
> is the only drive in my PC right now. What do I have to do to get
> grub to boot from a drive on the HPT366 IDE drives?
>
> address@hidden grub]$ df
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hde9 17639220 4336884 12406316 26% /
> /dev/hde1 101089 7200 88670 8% /boot
> /dev/hde6 497829 56 472071 1% /tmp
> /dev/hde5 1011928 59036 901488 7% /var
>
> My boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> # general configuration:
> timeout 10
> default 0
> #fallback 2
> color light-gray/blue red/light-gray
>
> title Redhat 7.1
> root (hd4,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2smp root=/dev/hde9 ro
Looks like the extra HPT366 controller is an add-on to the
motherboard, and the SMP part is hinting that you maybe have an
ABit BP6?
I have one of these, and your problem is that, with no other
drives installed (or even with drives installed on an ABit BP6
with the BIOS order set to "EXT" before "C", and "EXT" set to
"UDMA66"), you need to set the disk part of your "root" device
statement in your GRUB menu file to:
hd0
You were assuming that BIOS device numbers follow the Linux
device naming scheme, and that is not the case. The BIOS
numbers them starting from the first one in boot order.
--
Erich Stefan Boleyn <address@hidden> http://www.uruk.org/
"Reality is truly stranger than fiction; Probably why fiction is so popular"