[ale] Boot failed

Benjie benjie.godfrey at gmail.com
Fri Feb 10 00:23:39 EST 2006


Have you checked the boot order in the BIOS?  It may be that your hard drive
isn't listed as a bootable device.

Benjie

On 2/9/06, John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
>
> James P. Kinney III said:
> > OK. Now it's weird. Have you swapped the cable?
>
> Yeah, when I swapped drives, the cables went with them.
>
> It's actually set up as:
>
> /dev/hda1 (/boot)
> /dev/hda2 (software RAID, LVM)
>
> /dev/hde1 (spare)
> /dev/hde2 (software RAID, LVM)
>
> /dev/sda1 (software RAID, LVM)
> /dev/sdb1 (software RAID, LVM)
>
> Drives and partitions are exactly the same size. hda is a Seagate and hde
> is a WD.
>
> After trying grub-install /dev/hda had no effect on the boot, I swapped
> /dev/hda with /dev/hde, reran an Ubuntu install so that what used to be
> /dev/hde1 and spare was now /dev/hda1 and mounted as /boot. Same damned
> error.
>
> It just feels like it has to be the motherboard, but I could be very
> wrong. I purchased the board not 4 months ago, so going to see what my
> warranty options are. FYR, it's an Asus A7V600-X (socket a Athlon).
>
> What a frustrating experience, especially considering sda and sdb are my
> two big storage drives and the backup drives for the house.
>
> Thanks for any insight or eurekas you might have!
>
> John
>
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