Your right thorny, that is just the case, i've already sent a new mail before this one with some extras... I do not have a device.map i've forgotten to say, plus i've made my own and at beast it just makes the pc reboot after grub... Gonna stop working for the day but will be arround to discuss this and more, just need a rest... Thanks Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:36:58 -0700 From: Thorny <<a href="mailto:thorntreehome@gmail.com">thorntreehome@gmail.com</a>> Subject: Re: ubuntu server intrepid does not boot To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:pan.2009.03.28.17.36.57.437710@gmail.com">pan.2009.03.28.17.36.57.437710@gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:36:50 +0000, Bruno Pinto posted: > Hi all. > > Sorry about my english and great thanks in advanced. > > I'm building a data server it as : > > - amd Phenom 2 2.3 GHZ > - 2X 2GB ddr2 800 Kingston > - 4 sata2 500GB seagate > - two sets of raid 1 > - mobo msi k9a2gm v3 > - 40 GB ide for system > > It works fine if drives are set to ide on mobo bios or with only ide > connected. > > If i set raid on mobo the systems hangs after grub displaying only a > blinking cursor... > > But if i run the install cd and choose "boot from first disk drive" it > boots normally. > > I've being for hours trying to work this out and nothing, already tried > gsd and other and still nothing, what to do? > > Please post in text only to the list. There is a chance that your issue is caused by your device nodes being enumerated differently when you boot with a mix of SATA and IDE. Sometimes that can be corrected by using a LABEL or UUID designation in the GRUB menu.lst file for the boot drive. Have a look at your GRUB device.map file to see if that information gives any hint. Maybe look at fdisk -l and blkid too after booting the system. Sorry, I can't give you a definitive answer, just a few more questions to consider. From what you describe it looks to me like your system doesn't find GRUB at boot when you have that mix of SATA and IDE.