[adding linux-ide mailing list] On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:01:30 -0600 Mike Hayward wrote: > Three identical known good opteron systems can no longer boot freshly > installed distros from an ide hard drive. The systems have one ide > drive and eight sata drives. If distro is installed to ide drive, > Ubuntu 9.10 server moves cursor down the screen twice, then hangs > while Fedora 12 grub loads but then claims it can't find root to mount > and it and hangs 'forever'. Numerous distros have all booted fine > before 2.6.25... I don't know where it went wrong between 25 and 31. > > This is despite partitioning with and without lvm, despite making sure > kernel/boot loader are in partition in first 2 gigs of ide drive. > > Both distros boot just fine on each system when os is installed on a > sata drive so this isn't a hardware defect. > > Distro that boots fine from ide: > Linux opt1 2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:06:21 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Distros that no longer boot via ide drive: > Linux opt2 2.6.31-14-server #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 15:07:34 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux > Linux opt3 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Nov 7 21:11:14 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Maybe this can be worked around with some options to grub or > kernel... if so, shouldn't distros detect that ide drives are being > set up and configure the boot loader properly? It would be very hard > for newbie to figure this one out. > > Has anyone else seen this, or am I the only one who boots from ide > when a sata drive is present? :-) > > - Mike --- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
