From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1J7pdH-0000Do-IE for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:06:31 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J7pdG-0000DF-AO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:06:30 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J7pdB-0000Bp-Mf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:06:29 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J7pdB-0000Be-F9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:06:25 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J7pdB-0002A9-6S for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:06:25 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J7pd7-0003Py-Pa for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:06:23 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J7pcf-0007yP-Da for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:05:53 +0100 Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:05:53 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20071227100553.GB30225@thorin> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Some grub2 problems/questions X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:06:30 -0000 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 your core.img, everything should be back to normal. However.... > 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 PCI bus? It's strange that you got it working on real hardware (i.e. not qemu) because PCI wasn't implemented yet. > but for the second drive grub2 will > print only (ata2) without listing any partitions. As expected. > 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 else. Could you re-run this part with `debug' variable set to `ata' ("set debug=ata", then "insmod ata") and see what's the last thing printed ? -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)