On 22/08/2009, Col <[email protected]> wrote: > Ryan McCoskrie wrote: >> For the last couple of months I have had both a SATA disk and an IDE disk >> working. >> The two things that I did last night that were a little unusual are >> downloading a more recent kernel and using ktorrent. >> Aside from my boot partition on the SATA disk I'm using ext4. >> > > A while back my system stopped booting after a kernel upgrade ( at > around 2.6.25ish ). I was also using a mixture of sata & pata drives. It > turned out that the new kernel would detect the drives in the opposite > order ( ie: sda was now sdb ) while grub detected then as it always had. > > I did a work around by editing grub.conf and fstab to match. > Now I only have sata drives.
The problem is that it isn't getting as far as the boot loader. I have tried the suggested edit but it hasn't done anything.
