Re: problem with grub and new sata pci card

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:19:00 +0100, rosco wrote this:

Hi,

I've added a fasttrak4310 SATA card to a DELL poweredge 1800 server and I
have a problem with grub. The system was working proprely with 2 existing
raid/sata disks directly connected to the motherboard.

Now if I activate (in the pci card menu at boot time, both disks in jbod
mode) the two new SATA disks connected to the pci SATA card, then grub
stops booting just after it would say "ok, booting the kernel". If I don't
activate the disks, then the system boots normally. When I use grub in
command line, and execute a "geometry (hd0,0)" for example, then grub just
hangs, it hangs also if I run a "search /boot/grub/menu.lst".

I've tried to boot with "boot (hd1,0) and (hd2,0) instead of (hd0,0) with
no results.

I have no logs, since I cannot boot with the disks activated and rhel-as4
in rescue mode refuses to boot.

What should I do ?



here is a part of my menu.lst


default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.6.9-34.0.1.ELsmp) root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.0.1.ELsmp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 rhgb
quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-34.0.1.ELsmp.img


Do you need to change the bios to boot from the add-on card?

.

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