Grub is working right, you got something else going.. It looks to me like its past
grub and booting linux. Linux is trying to find your ide controller cards and
locking.. Or something to that affect.
Wait.......... you have > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hde3
> initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r8
why don't you have /boot in front of initrd like you do the kernel??
there is no nee
>
> Hi,
> OK, I came home for lunch so I could take a try at getting further.
> I'm making progress, but it's still not booting. Results are the same
> whether working from the hard drive version of grub, or a floppy made
> when I did the install.
>
> I reboot, come up into grub and then edit the
> configuration. The best
> I have so far is:
>
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hde3
>
> and then I type 'boot'.
>
> The machine gets further, down to the point of looking at the UDMA100
> controller. It says
>
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
>
> and hangs. Alt-CTL-Del doesn't work and I have to push the
> reset button.
> I assume these are just statements about how it would use the
> controllers if drives were there. The only drive that should exist at
> this point should be hda, the CDRW.
>
> I also tried
>
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hde3
> initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r8
>
> It made no difference. I also tried
>
> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hde3 nodma
>
> and still fail, all the same way.
>
> Last evening, before I started the Gentoo install, I quickly tried to
> throw a copy of DOS on just to see what would happen. DOS would not
> boot and hung looking for CDROMS. If I booted a version of
> DOS that did
> not look for CDROMS, then DOS was fine.
>
> I'd wonder if this is an NForce2 chipset issue, but I know others have
> made the motherboard work, although I'm not sure if they've
> done it with
> SATA.
>
> Thanks again for all your comments.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
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