On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Mike Hayward <hayward@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Most likely the IDE drive isn't being detected properly, but we need > > more info on the hardware. Can you post the dmesg output from bootup > > with a working kernel? (If you can, the boot messages from the ones that > > fail to boot would be ideal. For the Fedora one, you can edit the kernel > > command line in grub and take the "quiet" off the end to see more of > > them on the screen, any ata output would be useful..) > > Ok, here goes with a working ubuntu system. Getting logs from failed > to boot systems is a challenge; none of the Fedora logs had anything > obvious to me at the tail but I couldn't review them all. Systems are > production so I couldn't keep offline after weekend. > > This is from literally the same exact installation process except to a > different drive. The ide hard drive works just fine after booting > from sata. Hopefully boot messages can help. Any ideas why Ubuntu > didn't even bring up grub when pressing keys? I am not so familiar > with it, but guessing boot loader wedged before kernel bootstrap. This one looks normal.. so it only fails if you actually boot from the IDE drive? That's a bit odd. What if you boot from a Fedora install disc in rescue mode - can it see the drive then? I'm not too familiar with the Ubuntu boot process - it could be the kernel messages are set up to be so quiet you don't get any output even if it can't mount the root file system, etc. -- 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
