well, when SATA drives sit on a RAID controller (like 3ware in my case) they are addressed by the kernel as SCSI's (sd). But grub wants hd
> 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 -- Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics Associate Professor University of Alberta tel 1-780-492-2150 412 Avadh Bhatia Physics Labs fax 1-780-492-0714 Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1, CANADA -- [email protected] mailing list
