Re: [SLE] Added disk now no boot



On Wednesday 25 January 2006 6:40 pm, you wrote:
> Success! I moved the new controller to the bottom PCI slot, lower than
> the existing RAID controller, and Lo! it booteth. Hurrah. So it was
> confusing the drive devices and trying to use the compaq RAID array
> driver on the Promise card, which made it choke.
>

Congratulations. If grub actually loaded off the Compaq 3200 then it was
probably looking for /boot/vmlinuz on that Windows drive and got way
confused. That's where editing /boot/grub/menu.lst may have helped but
isn't necessary now that you have the controllers in their proper order on
the PCI bus.

Stan

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