 | | | Grub and extra IDE cards | Grub and extra IDE cards 2004-01-15 - By Andrew Smith
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Hi there,
I've had a bit of a read around about this but I'm
not 100% sure what the problem actually is, so in a
hope that someone else has seen the same problem,
it is:
I have a motherboard with a failed IDE0 but IDE1 is
fine.
After the failure I rearranged everything and then
installed W2K so I could again use the windows stuff
that I on occasion require since the failure killed
the original IDE0 master drive data which was also
windoze
Next I bought a IDE RAID Sil0680 card and couldn't
get that to do anything properly - w2k needed a
driver and my paragon partition backup/manager
program didn't detect the drives on the RAID
controller (that's part of how I do drive drive
imaging and resizing to new larger drives)
Grub also wouldn't boot
Next I got a different brand IDE RAID card that
turned out also to be Sil0680 but this time the
paragon program could see all the drives
But Grub couldn't boot
Finally I got a non-RAID Sil0680 and still Grub
couldn't boot
I played with grub but couldn't get my RH9 to boot
so I decided to do a reinstall to see if that
could work out the correct grub settings
I did a fedora install and it seemed to be happy
with everything, but when I got to rebooting only
W2K showed up (the grub MBR was not even on the
BIOS HDD-0 W2K drive)
I also tried grub-install to the W2K drive (after
saving the boot block) and grub just says "GRUB"
at boot time.
The setup is:
Motherboard IDE0 master/slave nothing but still enabled
Motherboard IDE1 master is a Panasonic DVD drive
Motherboard IDE1 slave is a HDD with Win2K
Card IDE0 master linux /boot, / and swap
Card IDE0 slave extra drive with 1 ext3 and 1 fat
Card IDE1 master/slave nothing
When I boot linux recover
Card IDE0 master is hda
Card IDE0 slave is hdb
Motherboard IDE1 master is hdg
Motherboard IDE1 slave is hdh
So it looks like under Linux the drives
start with the IDE Card and then the Motherboard (weird)
The fedora install put the MBR into hda but I can't boot
hda, only hdh (which the BIOS calls HDD-0)
If I "grub-install /dev/hdb" it says the BIOS doesn't
know the hdb drive but if I "grub-install /dev/hda"
it's happy to do that (and of course it's happy to
do hdh also)
Any hints, suggestions or ideas greatly appreciated.
I'll look for a "grub" list next if noone here has any
idea, but I thought I'd check here first.
Any extra command output anyone thinks will help, just
let me know
--
-Cheers
-Andrew
MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding!
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