grub problem

[Karl F. Larsen]

Luca Ferrari wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 May 2009 04:13:20 pm Rashkae wrote:
>
>   
>> And finally, if you boot from a Live CD and enter the grub console, I
>> would specify exactly what device I'm referring too.  It's entirely
>> possible (read: likely) for the bios to re-organize the order of hard
>> drives if you boot from an IDE optical drive then switch to SATA.
>>
>> For example, use cat /proc/mdstat to verify which devices consists of
>> the md device my /boot is on, then, in grub
>>
>> device (hd0) /dev/sda
>> device (hd1) /dev/sdb
>> root (hd0,1)
>> setup (hd0)
>> root (hd1,1)
>> setup (hd1)
>>     
>
>
> No way. I've tried doing the above, my partitions are /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 and 
> /dev/cciss/c0d1p2, the second primary partition of both disks. I've tried to 
> change the partition type from raid to 83 (linux) and did again the grub 
> setup, but at the boot time the computer waits a lot and then drop me to a 
> busybox shell. I can see a message that states that /dev/md0 cannot be found 
> (it is the root filesystem). I've got a boot filesystem on both disk partitions, 
> maybe grub cannot load /dev/md0?
>
> Any clue?
>
> Luca
>
>   
    Luca I have a computer that is so old the SATA drive was an add-on 
to my BIOS. I had a IDE and a SATA hard drive and the BIOS changed the 
/dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1 at wierd times! I had so much trouble I removed 
the IDE hard drive. Now it does not change :-)


Karl


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