ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions)

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 09:33:58AM -0800, walt wrote:
> >>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 ?
> 
> Ah, I didn't notice before that grub2 only recognizes the PATA drive
> and the cd-burner on the PATA controller.  Grub2 stops dumping
> info after the cd-burner and never gets to the SATA disk on the
> Promise controller.  The Promise controller is built into the mobo
> and the BIOS recognizes it and will boot from it, but the ata module
> in grub2 will not.  Would this explain why grub2 hangs?
> 
> I should mention that I've never installed grub2 because I don't
> really want it on my boot record yet.  I build the grub2 image using
> ./grub-mkimage -d . -o mygrub *.mod (as I read on the wiki) and then
> use old grub to load grub2.  I loaded ata.mod by accident because I'm
> too lazy to type all of those module names :o)  I certainly don't
> mind testing and debugging the ata module, though, if I can be of
> any help to you.

Thank you.  Marco knows the ATA side of things better, although he's a bit
busy lately.  Let's see if he picks up on this...

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Robert Millan

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