From: Bernd Nies (listuser_at_adnovum.ch)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2006 - 15:16:36 CET
Message-ID: <4406FE44.101@adnovum.ch> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:16:36 +0100 From: Bernd Nies <listuser@adnovum.ch> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SATA drives
Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 February 2006 18:38, Bernd Nies wrote:
>> Wade Grant wrote:
>>> Created a small boot partition and that seems to have solved it. I
>>> remember long ago having to deal with this but I thought SATA controllers
>>> and the kernel would be over something this simple. Weird but no big
>>> deal. Thanks for the brain jump. ;)
>> In a few cases Linux is very consistent over all the years ;-)
>
> In this case the problem will be in the BIOS, not in Linux, if the system
> won't even start the boot loader. This happens way before the kernel comes
> into play. So it might be worth looking to see if there is a firmware update
> available
Well, that was also what I believed ...
We recently had this on a Dell Poweredge 2850 and SLES9 SP3. Boot hang
when GRUB came. Did only work with /boot partition. SLES9 SP2 worked
without /boot.
Bye
Bernd
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