Re: grub2 problems

2009-10-25 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Sonntag, den 25.10.2009, 20:27 + schrieb James Courtier-Dutton: > Hi, > > What is the dependancy of the grub boot loader and the grub.cfg file. > I had a perfectly working grub2 install. > I changed my grub.cfg file, assuming that grub would automatically use > the new one, but grub failed

grub2 problems

2009-10-25 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi, What is the dependancy of the grub boot loader and the grub.cfg file. I had a perfectly working grub2 install. I changed my grub.cfg file, assuming that grub would automatically use the new one, but grub failed to boot showing massed of errors in the grub.cfg file it saw. This was fixed by re-

Re: ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions)

2008-01-15 Thread Marco Gerards
Vesa Jääskeläinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robert Millan wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 04:14:38PM -0800, walt wrote: >>> Unfortunately, ata.mod still doesn't recognize the disk on the Promise >>> sata controller. But, that's expected at this point? >> >> Yes. Some SATA controllers emula

Re: ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions)

2008-01-13 Thread walt
Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 04:14:38PM -0800, walt wrote: I'm happy to report that the ata module no longer hangs as I described above. I'm guessing (just a guess) that this commit fixed it: 2008-01-10 Robert Millan<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * kern/device.c (grub_device_iterate

Re: ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions)

2008-01-13 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 04:14:38PM -0800, walt wrote: Unfortunately, ata.mod still doesn't recognize the disk on the Promise sata controller. But, that's expected at this point? Yes. Some SATA controllers emulate PATA, but not all do. I suppose there are multiple contr

Re: ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions)

2008-01-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 04:14:38PM -0800, walt wrote: > > I'm happy to report that the ata module no longer hangs as I described > above. I'm guessing (just a guess) that this commit fixed it: > > 2008-01-10 Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * kern/device.c (grub_device_iterate): Do not

Re: ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions)

2008-01-12 Thread walt
Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 09:33:58AM -0800, walt wrote: The other Athlon machine has one PATA drive on a VIA 8235 controller and one SATA drive on a Promise controller. This machine makes it through grub_ata_dumpinfo for both disks but then it hangs forever without printing a

ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions)

2007-12-30 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 09:33:58AM -0800, walt wrote: > >>The other Athlon machine has one PATA drive on a VIA 8235 controller > >>and one SATA drive on a Promise controller. This machine makes it > >>through grub_ata_dumpinfo for both disks but then it hangs forever > >>without printing anything

Re: Some grub2 problems/questions

2007-12-27 Thread walt
Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 12:26:03PM -0800, walt wrote: ... The first machine has two ordinary PATA drives on a VIA 8235 controller and grub2 complains that the firmware is tainted. Grub2 will use (ata1) okay and lists all the partitions, Nice. Is that controller in the P

Re: Some grub2 problems/questions

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:05:53AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 12:26:03PM -0800, walt wrote: > > Hi grub group. > > > > Beginning with the commits of 2007-10-31 my two Athlon machines won't > > work properly with grub2, and I'd like to find out why. > > It's a known prob

Re: Some grub2 problems/questions

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 12:26:03PM -0800, walt wrote: > Hi grub group. > > Beginning with the commits of 2007-10-31 my two Athlon machines won't > work properly with grub2, and I'd like to find out why. It's a known problem. That's when we added the ATA driver. If you don't include ata.mod in y

Some grub2 problems/questions

2007-12-26 Thread walt
Hi grub group. Beginning with the commits of 2007-10-31 my two Athlon machines won't work properly with grub2, and I'd like to find out why. The first machine has two ordinary PATA drives on a VIA 8235 controller and grub2 complains that the firmware is tainted. Grub2 will use (ata1) okay and l