[CentOS] Re: I need hardware advice here

[S.Tindall]

On Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:07 PM, Victor Padro wrote:
>
> Actually I did that but there was no solution
> like you said:
> # chroot /mnt/sysimage
> # grub-install /dev/sda
> I even tried:
> # grub-install /dev/sda2
> # grub-install /dev/hda
> but there was no possitive result and couldn't boot at all.
> I tried installing FC9 but there was no sucess at all.
>
> I guess I'll wait until CentOS 5.2 its released, because my 
> subscription to
> Red Hat will finish sometime in September, mean while I'll test Xen 
> under
> RHEL 5.2.

Since you installed using AHCI, but then changed to SATA (hence the 
kernel panic), you probably need to rebuild the initrd image (see 
mkinitrd) from rescue mode.

Steve