Do you have another disk with system files on it that you can use as a boot disk?
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 02:51 -0400, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > On 22/08/2009, Col <c...@paradise.net.nz> wrote: > > Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > >> For the last couple of months I have had both a SATA disk and an IDE disk > >> working. > >> The two things that I did last night that were a little unusual are > >> downloading a more recent kernel and using ktorrent. > >> Aside from my boot partition on the SATA disk I'm using ext4. > >> > > > > A while back my system stopped booting after a kernel upgrade ( at > > around 2.6.25ish ). I was also using a mixture of sata & pata drives. It > > turned out that the new kernel would detect the drives in the opposite > > order ( ie: sda was now sdb ) while grub detected then as it always had. > > > > I did a work around by editing grub.conf and fstab to match. > > Now I only have sata drives. > > The problem is that it isn't getting as far as the boot loader. > I have tried the suggested edit but it hasn't done anything.