Sounder 8 installation notes

[James Gregory]

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 19:20 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:56:56AM +1000, James Gregory wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 10:29 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > 21 : Selected disk does not exist
> > >      This error is returned if the device part of a device- or full
> > >      file name refers to a disk or BIOS device that is not present or
> > >      not recognized by the BIOS in the system.
> > 
> > I see. I don't know if it's important but the drives in question are
> > SATA drives that go through some weirdo bridge thing (Highpoint chipset)
> > so that they appear as hde and hdg. I suppose it's feasible that the
> > bridge thing is saying something wrong about drive ordering or geometry
> > or something.
> 
> Yes, that's important; it's probably the source of the trouble.  I have
> heard of problems with grub and Highpoint controllers before, as well as
> SATA, though the latter I have at least seen work.

Is there a workaround? IIRC Fedora originally installed GRUB ok on this
box (I might be wrong about that though). I replaced it with lilo
because I liked having a boot-loader automatically installed to both
disks (which has finally proven helpful).

> > Would it be a useful debugging step to install grub to a floppy and do
> > this 'c' thing?
> 
> >From the installer, you can press alt-f2 to get a console, and try something
> like:
> 
> mkdir /target
> mount <your root partition> /target
> chroot /target
> grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map
> grub> find /boot/grub/menu.lst

Ok, well for now I have a bunch of other mangled partitions as a result
of tinkering with all this. I'll try to recover them then I'll give this
a go. Probably won't get to it until the weekend.

James.

-- 
James Gregory <james at james.id.au>
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