Dave Howorth wrote:
Further to my previous post (GRUB, SATA etc) my D875PBZ-based box is hanging on boot. I have:
1 PATA drive (pri master), 1 DVD (sec master) and 2 SATA drives.
I am booting off the first SATA drive (SATA0). It gets to runlevel 5 and starts various things (lots of green done messages) but then stops. The last two lines on screen are:
Starting hardware scan on bootStarting CRON daemon done Starting Name Service Cache Daemon done
I tried booting with the failsafe args(no dma, apm, acpi, smp, apic etc) but that hung earlier in the boot. The last line is:
hde: attached ide-disk driver.
I don't see anything wrong in the log before that.
Does anybody have any suggestions what may be wrong or where to look for more diagnostics?
This is the same m/b that 'root' says works fine (and indeed my box works under SuSE 8.2 with an earlier Mantel .21 kernel)
Cheers, Dave
Hi Dave, I recently posted about my attempt to install 9.0 to SATA on a D875PBZ. I tried the installation exactly the same way you did, by not bringing the PATA into the drive selection. Whenever I booted from DVD I got the same message that you're getting now: 'hde: attached ide-disk driver.' then it freezes. At lease you were able to load onto a SATA whereas I was not. I'm curious if you're running the same BIOS version. Mine is BZ87510A.86A.0083.P18. I'm also curious as to which kernel was installed onto your system. Mine shows the smp4G kernel. Dmesg shows CPU0 and CPU1 despite there being only 1 CPU on the system. Dan - wo6m