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youri

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From: southern ohio

Registered: 2009-05-22

Posts: 26

Can't boot into arch, grub keeps freezing on me!! [SOLVED]

Hello, I have installed grub on the MBR and it reads my drive fine and boots grub, but as soon as I try to boot I get a freeze, no error message nothing.

Just now I did this:

pressed "c" for command line and stuck this in:

grub> root (hd0,0) 
grub> setup (hd0)

The output I get is

"checking if /boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
"Checking if "/grub/stage1/ exists.......

And that's it it locks up here! I can't figure it out and I want to boot back into arch!@

My drive is being found because I can do geometry (hd0,0) and see all my partitions.

It is a sata drive that's running off a PCI card with chipset like sil 3214.

Maybe I need to add something to mkinitcpio.conf? That doesn't seem like the problem.

Last edited by youri (2009-06-18 16:36:20)

youri

Member

From: southern ohio

Registered: 2009-05-22

Posts: 26

Re: Can't boot into arch, grub keeps freezing on me!! [SOLVED]

I think I just made a breakthrough by using the "d" option to install grub@!!!!

grub> root (hd0,0)
grub>install /grub/stage1 d (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 p /grub/menu.lst

I hope that helps someone who experiences grub freeze/hang with SATA PCI card (ABIt kv8 pro motherboard).

But now I get "root device 'dev/sda3' doesn't exist and basically it's not finding my drive!

Does anyone know what kind of hooks I need to be playing with in that mkinitcpio file?

Note: I figured it all out, I put sata before pata and now I am booting up fine!

Last edited by youri (2009-06-18 16:41:42)