On Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:31 PM, Victor Padro wrote: > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:21 AM, S.Tindall <tindalls.gr9x at osccc.com> > wrote: > >> 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 >> > > How can I rebuild the initrd image if it doesn't see the HD? > I tried that...I having the conclusion that perhaps it's the sata_nv > and the > AHCI drivers provided in CentOS/RHEL 5, 5.1 that they're not well > compiled > or something because I did install using RHEL 4. > that's kinda odd to me... My misunderstanding. I thought you were implying that you could successfully mount in rescue mode. Steve