On 26 July 2010 11:54, William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > Fixed it - was grub after all - it renumbered my drives (0 and 1 > swapped :( > > Complicated because this was one of the early sata boards with a fake > raid chip to handle the sata while the old IDE drives were on the normal > bus. > > Further complicated by the bios and raidchip changing drive assignments > depending on which drive/cd/floppy you booted from (i.e., what grub sees > as the drive numbers changes when the real OS is booted). I forgot what > hoops I had to jump through to get this going originally. > > Might be time for a new setup - amd athlon 2500+ are not so cool these > days :)
Glad you got it working! Another gotcha is when you disable the deprecated CONFIG_IDE in the kernel and you don't update your grub.conf and /etc/fstab to rename /dev/hda's into /dev/sda's. -- Regards, Mick
