Re: Won't boot if I add SATA drives
- From: Whoever <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:48:27 -0800
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Dances With Crows wrote:
["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.hardware.]
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:14:04 -0800, Whoever staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, J.O. Aho wrote:Whoever wrote:I have a system that boots (using LILO) from an IDE drive. The
system also has a Silicon Image SATA adapter. If I actually connect
any SATA drives to the card, LILO does not boot off the IDE drive.
It gets as far as "LIL". The system will boot off a rescue CD,
although it did not make the SATA drives available
It's not much of a rescue CD if it doesn't have proper SiS SATA support.
This is weird, but there's probably a solution somewhere. You mentioned
"error messages about the ATA subsystem" when you tried this rescue CD.
Can you reproduce those?
Probably, but not just at the moment. I should have written them down, but since my intent was to re-install LILO, and I could do this, I wasn't too concerned. It may just be that a newer rescue CD would work better.
According to LILO's documentation, it could be a geometry problem,
yet how should this be affected by the presence of a SATA drive?
Strange things can happen when you have a mixed SATA/IDE system. On my
desktop, if the BIOS boot order is set to (IDE CD-ROM,SATA), GRUB sees
the SATA disk as (hd2). If the BIOS boot order is set to (SATA,IDE
CD-ROM), GRUB sees the SATA disk as (hd0). Have you tried using GRUB
instead? Its shell can be really useful when stupid things happen to
the bootloader config.
I am going to try GRUB, perhaps it won't be so sensitive to the drive geometry?
.
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