Re: Unable to boot squeeze on sw raid array when external USB drive connected

2011-05-21 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
The consensus of people whom I've talked to is that, at the point where grub freezes, there's a problem with misidentification of hard drives when the USB drive is present (in essence, the USB drive is being mistaken for a member of the RAID-1 array; when the drive is absent, this mistake is not

Unable to boot squeeze on sw raid array when external USB drive connected

2011-05-19 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Hi there -- I am running squeeze with a non-RAID boot partition and a RAID-1 main partition. I use GRUB2 as my bootloader. My problem is the following: When I have my Seagate FreeAgent USB hard drive connected to the computer, it's unable to boot, instead it hangs with the Welcome to GRUB!