On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 08:47 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 12:47 -0500, Derek Tattersall wrote: > > I have a system that has a motherboard with both SATA and IDE on it. I > > have an IDE drive as /dev/hda, and a CDROM drive as /dev/hdb with FC4 on > > the IDE drive. I have acquired a SATA drive and would like to add it to > > my system. If I just plug it in, the computer hangs at with a message > > like GRUB: Loading stage 2. > > > > I set up the system bios to boot off of hdd0, and it seems to do that - > > at least it starts booting the grub bootloader, it just doesn't get very > > far. > > > > Can anyone tell me how to set up grub so I can still boot the computer > > off of the IDE drive and then use the SATA drive for extra storage? I > > don't want to re-install the operating system or move it to the other > > drive if I can help it. > > > > The motherboard is an ASUS K8V Deluxe with a Via chipset. > > > It sounds like the SATA drive is being seen by grub as hda and thus it > cannot boot. > > Try booting with your Rescue CD or the first install CD and check what > the drives are actually being seen as. You then can change device.map > and if needed the kernel command line in grub.conf to boot properly > The ide drive is /dev/hda, the SATA drive is /dev/sda. The problem is with GRUB on /dev/hda, it never gets as far as loading the kernel. GRUB hangs with the message: Loading stage 2. I have been reading the grub docs, but I cannot find anything relevant. Does anyone know what GRUB is doing at stage 2? I don't know what kinds of problems could lead to this error. Thanks Derek Tattersall
