[ale] Boot failed

[Raylynn Knight]

This is most likely your problem.  I'll bet the BIOS is trying to boot
from one of the SCSI drives.

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 00:23 -0500, Benjie wrote:
> 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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