[plug] grub query in mixed sata / pata setup

[Kev]

G'day Denis

You don't make it clear whether or not not you're happy with the 80g 
drive being seen as /dev/sdd.  It /should/ be seen as (most likely) 
/dev/hdb or (less likely) /dev/hdd.  There-in lies at least some of your 
problem.

Cheers
Kev

Denis Brown wrote:
> Hello PLUG list members,
>
> Not totally sure if this is sata / pata related but here goes...
>
> ASUS P5K mobo with sata controller within the Intel P35 chipset 
> (Northbridge, from what I can infer) and a JMicron JMB363 device 
> providing pata and other services.   Disk setup is three 300GB sata 
> which will be software RAID5'ed to provide the data store and an 80GB 
> pata drive intended for system use.   Also pata CD/DVD-RW.
>
> The CD is connected as master, the 80GB drive as slave (I think it 
> odd, but if I change that to HDD master and CD slave it will not see 
> or boot from the CD.)
>
> Ubuntu (7.0.4 for 64-bit) installs on the 80GB drive and determines 
> that it is /dev/sdd    The three to-be-RAIDed's are /dev/sda, sdb and 
> sdc.    Attempt to boot from the HDD yields error 17 "Cannot mount 
> selected partition" from GRUB.
>
> But... I activated the boot choice menu screen for Grub and it appears 
> - ergo the path /boot/grub *is* being found.   Further, if I drop into 
> Grub's shell (the "c" key from the boot choice menu) I can do a cat 
> /boot/grub/menu.lst for example and find the contents as I expect 
> them.   I can also successfully see the contents of fstab with a cat 
> /etc/fstab
>
> So, what's its problem about not being able to mount the partition????
>
> May not be related... initially I was getting Grub error 5 and 
> eliminated this by fdisk'ing the three data drives to create a 
> partition on each.    Hmmm... maybe I should format them to something 
> (ext3 for example) just in case Grub is trying to mount one of them.   
> But why would it?   Nothing in the Ubuntu installation talked about 
> setting up the data drives.
>
> Hitting with clue-bat appreciated :-)
> Denis
>
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