Sounder 8 installation notes

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:56:56AM +1000, James Gregory wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 10:29 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > 21 : Selected disk does not exist
> >      This error is returned if the device part of a device- or full
> >      file name refers to a disk or BIOS device that is not present or
> >      not recognized by the BIOS in the system.
> 
> I see. I don't know if it's important but the drives in question are
> SATA drives that go through some weirdo bridge thing (Highpoint chipset)
> so that they appear as hde and hdg. I suppose it's feasible that the
> bridge thing is saying something wrong about drive ordering or geometry
> or something.

Yes, that's important; it's probably the source of the trouble.  I have
heard of problems with grub and Highpoint controllers before, as well as
SATA, though the latter I have at least seen work.

> Would it be a useful debugging step to install grub to a floppy and do
> this 'c' thing?

>From the installer, you can press alt-f2 to get a console, and try something
like:

mkdir /target
mount <your root partition> /target
chroot /target
grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map
grub> find /boot/grub/menu.lst

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 - mdz