Alternative booting -- KUDOS to LES.

[Randy Forston]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
> 
>>>> If bios sees the drives as separate things, then that's how you
>>>> have to install grub, since it has to call bios to load the
>>>> kernel.  On a real hardware raid, bios will only see the array.
>>> 
>>> BIOS sees them as one drive. A working F7 sees them as two drives
>>> and as one under the /mapper dir. I could see this to be a BIOS
>>> problem if nothing loads, but GRUB does load at least so far as
>>> that it gets to the grub> prompt. So it is not that BIOS is
>>> confused. It is purely a GRUB issue. 
> 
> You aren't done with bios when you get the grub prompt.  Grub does not
> know anything about disk drivers and must make bios calls to load the
> kernel.
> 
>>    Exactly. I am going to see if it is a kernel problem. Grub really
>> did work on FC6 and that might have been because it has a different
>> kernel. I have the last good old kernel still bootable on this f7
>> and will try it later.
> 
> If you have a grub prompt, the kernel hasn't been loaded yet and can't
> be the problem.
> 
> --
>    Les Mikesell
>     lesmikesell at gmail.com


Les, 

I've been following this thread and I've just got to say, you have the
patience of a Saint .....
I've never used that phrase before, but, MAN! ... , does it ever apply to
you!


Randy
rforston at earthlink.net