On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 10:30 -0700, Lucas Albers wrote: > Here's a question for you. I Debian earlier on a machine at home that has > SATA drives. The SATA drives are configured as IDE-3 and IDE-4 Master's. > It installs fine, but when it boots, GRUB apparently can't find the config > file. It defaults to a text mode prompt GRUB>. It I enter > > root (hd2,0) > configfile grub/grub.conf > > it pops up the normal graphical GRUB menu and boots fine. > Internally, (hd2,0) is /dev/sda1. I tried setup (hd2) and that didn't make > any difference. So, it seems that GRUB can read the MBR from the drive, > but can't or won't look for config file on the same drive. Have you seen > anything like this?
Yes; I think so. When I put Sarge on my system, the SATA drive disappeared. I recompiled the kernel (2.4) several times, but could never get it right. I reinstalled Sarge with the 2.6 kernel, and all is well. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]