Re: Grub problem with SATA drives

whoops

>mkdir /tmp/myinitrd
> cp /boot/initrd-xxxx.img /tmp/myinitrd/theinitrd.img.gz
> gunzip /tmp/myinitrd/theinitrd.img.gz

cd /tmp/myinitrd

> cpio -i --make-directories < /tmp/myinitrd/theinitrd.img
> less /tmp/myinitrd/init
If you do want to make changes
> rm /tmp/myinitrd/theinitrd.img
> cd /tmp/myinitrd/
> find . | cpio -o -c | gzip -9 > /boot/mynewinitrd.img

Then change grub to point to this, rather than overwriting the other one (for now)

don't forget that directory jump