From what I can tell on the docs, Grub doesn't describe them by bus
(sd,hd etc), it just describes them by the order from the bios and calls
them all 'hd', no matter what the bus is. I could see how that could be
a pain if you had say IDE drives and SATA drives or multiple RAID cards
etc. In my case I have a single 3Ware RAID card with a single array so
its was just (hd0,0). The funny thing is that the error is misleading,
the error says its expecting a number, which is why I didn't think the
parser barfed at the 's' because it wanted an 'h'.
Frank
Dmitri Pogosyan wrote:
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
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