LFS+SATA=Borked

[Cogman]

I have a sata hd and an IDE hd. The IDE currently has NTFS and windows XP. The sata is using Reiser and a LFS system. My problem is I cant boot up with grub. I have tried just about everything I can think of so I am comming here for help.

Currently my menu.lst looks like this (this is from memory as im typing in WinXP right now)

title LFS-6.0.....
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.8.1 root=/dev/hdg1 hdg=ide-scsi

This does not work, I have tried booting to the SATA drive (which has grub installed on its boot sector) and I cant get it or windows xp to go.

my current device setting is this.

IDE0 Master=CDRW DVD drive
IDE0 Slave=52x CDrom
IDE1 Master=80gig Maxator HD
SATA1=Hiachi 80gig drive.
(note that it is SATA1 and not SATA0, this was due to some earlier problems)
I have an Asus A8V WiFi Deluxe board (socket 939) with Bios version 1003 installed.

After I reboot ill report the error Im getting. LFS was installed using Knoppix v3.6 with kernel v2.6

Also im using Grub v0.95

 

[cleverhandle]

Kernel version 2.6.8 added some twists to SATA support. There are now two options for SATA support in the kernel config (sorry, don't remember the correct names off-hand). If you're using the new one, SATA disks are accessed as SCSI devices, so you'll probably want /dev/sdaX instead of /dev/hdgX. You shouldn't, AFAIK, be using the ide-scsi option at all.

Also, I'm assuming that the relevant options are compiled directly into your kernel and not as modules.

 

[Cogman]

yes they are compiled directly in, not as modules. It sound like as good a problem as any as Knoppix 3.6 uses kernel 2.6.7. Ill try It and hopefully it will work. Thnx for the help.

 

[Cogman]

no dice. I made the change but still get the error
"root (hd0, 0)
Error 11: Unreconized Device string"
And just so you know, it is the same with root (hd1, 0)

 

[Cogman]

back to the top (still not fixed)