From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1J8yVL-0000FS-Hm for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:47:03 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J8yVJ-0000Cx-VD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:47:02 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J8yVI-00009Q-Bc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:47:01 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J8yVI-000091-1f for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:47:00 -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 1J8yVH-0001RO-UJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:47:00 -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 1J8yVD-0006pw-LC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:46:55 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J8yV1-0005bf-Je for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:46:43 +0100 Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:46:43 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20071230134643.GA21397@thorin> References: <20071227100553.GB30225@thorin> 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: ata.mod hangs (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: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:47:02 -0000 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... -- 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 /.)