Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-03-01 Thread Hani Duwaik
On 2/27/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 27 February 2006 18:48, Richard Fish wrote:> On 2/27/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > If you want to boot from a device your kernel has no built-in driver for > > use an initrd (for the nit-pickers: initramfs) generated by genkernel.> >

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 February 2006 18:48, Richard Fish wrote: > On 2/27/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you want to boot from a device your kernel has no built-in driver for > > use an initrd (for the nit-pickers: initramfs) generated by genkernel. > > ;-) > > This won't help. Grub uses BIOS call

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Richard Fish
> Look for the supoort of your sata chipset on grub homepage or something like Grub doesn't support SATA chipsets, IDE chipsets, SCSI chipsets, or any other kind of chipset. It supports PC BIOS interface calls to find and read bootable disks. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/27/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want to boot from a device your kernel has no built-in driver for use > an initrd (for the nit-pickers: initramfs) generated by genkernel. ;-) This won't help. Grub uses BIOS calls to access the disk drives...kerrnel drivers/initrd doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/27/06, Muthu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can somebody give me a suggestion why the SATA is not > recognized while booting in the grub? Grub uses BIOS calls to access disk drives. Is this SATA disk on a separate controller card? If so, I suspect that card doesn't have a bootable B

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 February 2006 17:27, Muthu wrote: > Hai, > > I am using gentoo 2.6.15 kernel and grub 0.96. > > I am using software RAID1 for 3 devices (2 IDE(hda,hdb)+1 > SATA(sda)). > > I am not able to boot through the SATA hardisk(ie. Just the > plain cursor comes). When the gr

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Javier Payno
El Lunes, 27 de Febrero de 2006 16:52, Muthu escribió: > > is your sata support compiled in as modules or into the kernel? > > sata support is compiled in to the kernel. It is detecting as SCSI > drive. I could access the disk. At the boot while rub is runing the kernel isn't loaded on the system,

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Muthu
On Feb 27, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Muthu wrote: Hai, I am using gentoo 2.6.15 kernel and grub 0.96. I am using software RAID1 for 3 devices (2 IDE(hda,hdb)+1 SATA(sda)). I am not able to boot through the SATA hardisk(ie. Just the plain cursor comes). When the grub loa

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 27, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Muthu wrote: Hai, I am using gentoo 2.6.15 kernel and grub 0.96. I am using software RAID1 for 3 devices (2 IDE(hda,hdb)+1 SATA(sda)). I am not able to boot through the SATA hardisk(ie. Just the plain cursor comes). When the grub loade

[gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Muthu
Hai, I am using gentoo 2.6.15 kernel and grub 0.96. I am using software RAID1 for 3 devices (2 IDE(hda,hdb)+1 SATA(sda)). I am not able to boot through the SATA hardisk(ie. Just the plain cursor comes). When the grub loader loads initially, if I type the the command