Ubuntu Install and boot issue V5.10

[George]

On Wednesday 30 November 2005 04:52 pm, Hodgins Family wrote:
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> Good afternoon!
>
> >  My problem is I've installed Ubuntu on a home built PC with 6 30G hard
> > drives,
>
> Six drives? Wow!
>
> > Pentium 3 and 512MB memory a SCSI controller for the DVD drive and
> > CD-RW drive.
>
> Not likely to be your problem.
>
> >Two Romtec Trios control which hard drive is booted.  Each
> > Trios controls three drives.
>
> Don't know much about Romtecs. Are the Romtecs working. Or...were the
> Romtecs working on that machine before installing Ubuntu?
> What other OS are on the drives and can you get these to boot OK?
>
> >  I had no problem installing the software but after removing the CD and
> > rebooting, I get the message:
> >
> > Uncopressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> > Loading, please wait...
> > [4294691.913000] Buffer I/O error on Device hda, logical block 0
> > [4294692.802000] Buffer I/O error on Device hda, logical block 0
> > ALERT! /dev/hda1 does not exists.  Dropping to a shell!
>
> What happens if the drives are connected to the internal IDE controllers
> can they boot then?
> If you boot with Knoppix (for example) can you see hda1?
> When Ubuntu was installing do you remember if it chose a drive to be hda1
> (once I did an install on a drive that was connected to a PCI controller
> card -- the install called it hdg1). Maybe you need to change alter GRUB to
> look at the right drive?
>
> Too many questions here, sorry for the lack of answers.
>
> Rob