[ale] why Linux hurts/disappoints me more than once

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 10:52 -0500, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> Can I force to use grub 1.x ?
> 
> Is there a real benefit to use grub 2.x ?

> Any one using Linux on a 1TB drive at all ?  I am beginning to doubt
> Linux's
> ability to run on a 1TB drive.

I have multiple machines with trans TB drives (1TB, 1.5TB, 2TB, multiple
drives, raid arrays, SATA and SAS).  Working just fine.  I'm presuming
these are SATA drives?  The largest IDE drive I've ever laid hands on is
a 750G drive and can't even find those any more, so I'm presuming this
isn't IDE (I have had some recent problems with certain Western Digital
Caviar IDE drives and not recognizing partitions).

Very likely, your problem has to do with that two drive setup with
Windows on the first drive.  At the very least, I would try and get a
boot partition on that drive and it should not need to be very large and
you want to keep it inside the first 1024 "cylinders", but the distro
install should have handled that for you.  Just as an experiment, you
could try swapping the two drives or taking the Windows drive out while
you test a pure Linux setup and then add it back in.

It does seem like you did manage to get it to boot a kernel and an
initramfs at least, but it's hard to exactly tell where the error is
occurring from what you displayed.  Somewhere above that it should have
given you some indication of detecting the drives but the error on that
screen is indicating that no partitions were found like it didn't detect
the drives at all.  It seems very strange to me that your root partition
is specifically called out as "mapper/MYTHTV-SERVER-root".  Does your
grub entry say "root=/dev/mapper/MYTHTV-SERVER-root"?  Almost seems like
the device mapper is not running at all but I can't tell based on the
limited display there.

> -Narahari
> 
Regards,
Mike
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