Never mind, turns out that disabling legacy usb support resolved this issue.
-PT On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Peter Tenenbaum < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello there -- > > I have a Debian squeeze workstation which uses grub2 as its bootloader. > The system has 2 hard drives: the root partition is a software RAID-1 array > configured with mdadm; the boot partition is non-RAID (ext3). It also has a > DVD drive. The underlying architecture is AMD64, the CPU and mobo are > Intel. > > Ordinarily, booting via grub2 with the configuration above works fine. > However, when I connect an external hard drive via a back-panel USB port, I > can't boot -- the boot hangs or freezes or something. > > Through use of echo statements, I determined that the problem occurs in the > following stanza near the top of my grub.cfg file: > > insmod raid > insmod mdraid > insmod part_msdos > insmod part_msdos > insmod ext2 > > > The first statement executes correctly, but the second (insmod mdraid) is > the one which hangs. > > Any suggestions for what might be wrong and/or how to correct it? > > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide, > -PT >
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