FC3: grub hangs in ide+scsi box

Louis Garcia louisg00 at bellsouth.net
Sun Dec 5 20:38:21 UTC 2004


That doesn't explain why grub would hang. My problem is before initrd
and the kernel. I can't even get to grub.

--Louis

> My guess would be that the initrd file was created with a config to 
> load the wrong module for your RAID. I would try manually loading 
> modules from a rescue disk, when you find the right one, put it in 
> your /etc/modprobe.conf file and then recreate your initrd file.
> 
> > Louis Garcia wrote:
> > 
> > I installed a minimum fc3 on a PII box. It has an ide boot drive (hda)
> > and two scsi HD (sda, sdb) in a raid config. The boot loader is in the
> > MBR of hda. The install goes fine but when it comes to booting up it
> > hangs right before the grub screen. If I take out the scsi card it boots
> > fine (except it complains about missing raid discs). This is a Gateway
> > G6 with an Adaptec aha-2940 UW. Any thought?
> > 
> > Thanks, --Louis





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