Good-day all, I've just completed my second installation of Gentoo Linux, and this is my first post to the mailing list. All-in-all I'm very excited about this distro. I don't think I've ever had a cleaner installation.
This installation was done on twin 30GB hard disks in a hardware mirrored configuration. The IDE raid card used is a cheap Adaptec 1200A which uses the HPT 370 chip. The primary drive is accessed as /dev/hde, where boot=/dev/hde1 and root=/dev/hde3. The files /dev/hdeX appear to be symlinks to /dev/ide/host2/bus2/target0/lun0/part1 and ../part3 respectively. I have CDROM drives on /dev/hda /dev/hdc. I assumed that I would be setting up grub on the boot partition of /dev/hde1, which seems like it should have been Grub> root (hd4,0) Grub> setup (hd4) The first grub command produced an error 21: Selected disk does not exist. The only one I could find that did not produce this error was (hd0,0) which I guess makes sense as it's really the only hard disk in the system, besides it's mirror. So then, what actually worked here was Grub> root(hd0,0) Grub> setup (hd0) My grub.conf is pretty much straight from the installation documentation default 0 timeout 10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Welcome to Gentoo Linux root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/grub/bzImage root=/dev/hde3 ide-scsi=/dev/hda When trying to boot this array, grub hangs. (GRUB Loading Stage1.5. then GRUB loading, please wait...) and you can wait forever. I can boot the system from the boot diskette I created by issuing grub a kernel parameter and a boot command grub> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hde3 grub> boot Can anyone see what I'm not understanding? I'd really like this system to boot from the hard disk as I plan to setup a similar machine in the near future. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Cordially, Chris Goodnough Sys Admin - Advantage Software "insert witty quote here" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
