> 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.
That's my thought too, but slightly different. hda-hdd are the chipset EIDE controllers. It found them, and said it was going to use DMA. I don't know if this is good or bad, but that's how I read this. However, I don't know the next step: 1) Look at the drives attached to the EIDE controllers, or 2) Look for the next controller, which is the SATA controller I'm sort of guessing that it's the second option, and that possibly the initrd has a driver for the SATA controller. However, in my mind this afternoon, that seems like a leap to assume that genkernel figured out this machine had an SATA controller and then built the driver into the kernel, or included it into the initrd file so that the machine would boot. Comments? > > 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 Did you mean to finish this thought? There's no need? Or no need in some cases but it must be there in others? Using grub's find is how I even found that genkernel had built an initrd and what its name was. It seemed to complete automatically inside of grub, but maybe that's not enough during the actual boot process? However, if /boot MUST be in front, then I think I didn't try that yet. Thanks! I think I'm closer with your help. don't give up on me. I think lots of people here are interested in SATA performance numbers. I hope to get some... Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
