On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: > > I had a situation similar to yours. When I had a mix of PATA and > SATA, I just could not boot the thing. Played with the BIOS settings, > grub entries such as hd(0,0), etc etc. I finally gave up on it and > went for lilo which had no issue booting the same system. I'd be > happy to go back to grub if I could get it to work. > Thanks. Maybe I'll just go back to booting from hd0 - that was working fine before. /boot et al still live on /dev/sda, I was actually (originally) just trying to CMA, but it looks like there's a hole in that cover, too. (Hahaha!) I remember when I was working with LILO In 1998-9, and I didn't really care for it then. Grub has, IMNSHO, a nicer interface, but it isn't quite as robust (obviously). I'll have to go back and look at LILO again - maybe. Ciao! mhr