grub hangs on a pure SCSI system when adding a new hdd
Felix Miata
mrmazda at ij.net
Mon Dec 8 16:58:02 UTC 2003
Emiliano Brunetti wrote:
> i ran into the following problem. On a pure SCSI system (2940UW PCI
> card) i was running Fedora Core 1 with no problems, until i tried to put
> another hdd on the system.
> I configured my SCSI bios in order to boot from the proper hdd (i.e. the
> one with grub installed), but system can't boot. I only see 'GRUB' and
> then system hangs. The new disk is good and working on the same adapter.
> My motheboard is rather old and IDE controller are bios-disabled.
> Is this a grub issue?
> No help, of course, from /var/log/messages.
> Any idea?
AFAIK, Grub will order according to the SCSI-BIOS setting for
high-to-low or low-to-high ordering sequence. If you specify a boot
device that isn't based upon that order, such as a boot device that has
ID3 on a chain that contains disks on any ID above and below ID3, then
you'll get the unusable misordered result you observed.
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