On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
> I got it figured out. The problem was at the sata driver level. The
> instructions I found for rebuilding the initrd neglected to mention that
> I needed to edit modprobe.conf and add the appropriate driver
> information first.
>
> I'm still not sure why it was able to get as far as loading the kernel
> before suddenly being unable to see the drives. If it needs sata
> drivers to see the disks, why doesn't it need them to read the boot
> partition? I didn't have to mess with grub or the boot sector after
> changing motherboards.
Grub uses the system bios to load the kernel and initrd. Then the
kernel takes over and has to either have the needed
disk/raid/lvm/filesystem drivers compiled in or available as modules
in the initrd to be able continue and mount the drives.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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