On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 17:58, Felix Miata wrote: > Emiliano Brunetti wrote: > > > i ran into the following problem. On a pure SCSI system (2940UW PCI > > card) i was running Fedora Core 1 with no problems, until i tried to put > > another hdd on the system. > > > I configured my SCSI bios in order to boot from the proper hdd (i.e. the > > one with grub installed), but system can't boot. I only see 'GRUB' and > > then system hangs. The new disk is good and working on the same adapter. > > > My motheboard is rather old and IDE controller are bios-disabled. > > > Is this a grub issue? > > > No help, of course, from /var/log/messages. > > > Any idea? > > AFAIK, Grub will order according to the SCSI-BIOS setting for > high-to-low or low-to-high ordering sequence. If you specify a boot > device that isn't based upon that order, such as a boot device that has > ID3 on a chain that contains disks on any ID above and below ID3, then > you'll get the unusable misordered result you observed. Ok, thanks a lot for your info. Actually it was a hardware problem, not a grub issue. Autoid was making a little mess. ;) I could solve it now, system boots and disk is usable. Still one question: is there a more intelligent way to manage all this? I decided to go for a pure scsi system to add as many disks as i need (more or less) but if whenever i add a hdd i must reconfigure all scsi id's to preserve the device map it gets really tricky. Thanks again! E.
