On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 23:14 -0500, Francisco Perez wrote: It does distinguish but SATA is an ATA drive and therefore an hd?. A true SCSI drive would be sd?.
> Thanks Ali! > I didn't catch that in the documentation, but as soon as I changed it, > it worked right way. :) > > Frank > Ali Naddaf wrote: > > > I am not an expert, but based on the grub documentation, it doesn't > > distinguish SCSI vs non-SCSI drives when it comes to the "root" > > clause, so change > > root (sd0,0) > > to > > root (hd0,0) > > > > and see if that make any difference. > > Ali. > > > > > > Francisco Perez wrote: > > > >> Hello everyone, > >> I'm installing gentoo on a Tyan GX28 with a broadcom SATA 8XXX RAID > >> Controller > >> and I'm getting the following error after Grub passes the boot > >> selection screen: > >> ------------------------------------------- > >> Booting 'Gentoo Linux' > >> > >> root (sd0,0) > >> > >> Error 23: Error while parsing number > >> > >> Press any key to continue... > >> ------------------------------------------- > >> After that it just returns me to the boot selection screen. > >> > >> According to the grub manual this is a syntax error in my grub.conf > >> file where > >> grub expects to find a number but finds somethng else. Thing is my > >> grub.conf file > >> is extremely short and just don't see where grub is expecting a > >> number and isn't > >> getting it. Maybe someone can point out my ignorance here? I'd really > >> apprecate it. :-D > >> > >> Here is the contents of my grub.conf file: > >> ######################################## > >> default 0 > >> > >> timeout 30 > >> > >> title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r11 > >> > >> root (sd0,0) > >> > >> kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r11 root=/dev/sda3 > >> ######################################## > >> Any deas? > >> > >> Frank > > > -- Tres -- [email protected] mailing list
