> > 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.
I thought of that, but "normally" it would kernel panic out saying it can't find your root drive.. (I think you said your sata driver is your primary hd... I am trying to remember, but I think it tried to find all the HD's in the system before checking the partitions.. I got scsi at home and I can't remember if it looked at my ide, then scsi, then checked the partitions... I would compile it internally, > > 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... if your /boot partition is seperate, then the above will work fine.. If grub found it, it should work.. and I was gonna say something, no idea what though.. ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
