At Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:51:06 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> >> Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> >>> On both my "old" (booting ok) and "new" (not booting) disc the
> >>> modprobe.conf contained
> >>>> alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
> >>> So it seems to me modprobe.conf was up-to-date.
> > On 17.12.2009 15:22, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >> If the disks take the same driver it should boot or at least get to a point
> >> where you get an error message with the reason. Are you sure it isn't a cable
> >> or drive select problem?
> >
> > I don't think there can be a cable select problem with SATA drives. :-)
> >
> > Anyway, another drive booted ok when attached to the same SATA cable.
> >
> > I did not get an error message, in fact the bootup hang on a blank
> > screen (I have not seen that before) some time before the CentOS splash
> > screen (I don't remember more exactly anymore, and cannot check).
>
> The first boot stages should happen with the the machine bios loading
> grub, then the kernel and initrd. It sounds like you aren't even getting
> that far. The usual driver/controller mismatch results in the kernel
> still being loaded by bios, doing it's device detection, then failing
> because it can't mount the root partition. Is the disk you are trying to
> boot part of a raid? And maybe the wrong half?
Or simply not marked as a bootable disk?
>
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