Troy Dawson wrote:
Ken Teh wrote:
I just installed a 4.5 machine and it hangs when booting at "grub
loading stage 2". Here's the strange part. It hangs only when a SCSI
disk (LVD/SE) disk is attached. SCSI card is an Adaptec 29160. When
the disk is removed, it rips right through the boot. The disk is fine
because I use the 4.5 install disk in rescue mode and I can see the
disk, mount it, and all its data is there. I tried with another disk
and I have the exact same result. I'm baffled!!
Ken
The odd's are that it's because the disks are getting re-ordered when
you plug in and unplug the scsi disks.
Without any disks there, grub is saying "here is my disk on (hd0,0) and
away I go" And since hd0,0 is the right disk, away it goes.
With the other disks there grub is saying "Well, I have two disks,
(hd0,0) and (hd1,0). I'm told I need to boot off (hd0,0) and away I
go" But, in reality, your main system disk is what grub thinks is
(hd1,0) and so it's booting off the wrong disk.
Ken, you can test this by getting to the grub command line and typing
stuff like
help
root (hd0,0)
root (hd1,0)
find
etc etc
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John
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