seagate barracuda ata serial drive

hampton275 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 104

I just bought an Abit At7-Max2 motherboard and a Seagate Barracuda(120 gig). All I currently have in my system is hdb and hdd (both Cdroms). I installed gentoo 1.4 no problem as it detected the seagate serial drive as hde.
When I boot I get to grub stage 1.5 and then an error 21.
Does anyone know where I should be pointing grub?

Here is my grub.conf lines for the drive( 0,0 was what grub took during the install;
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hde3
TIA

hampton275 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 104

I have tried to use a 15 gig ide drive to kick-off the seagate drive, but same thing. It sees the drive fine when I do the install, but one I reboot, nothing.
Also, I have put my old hard drives in with the seagate, to see if I could mount it in my old setup (fully up to date gentoo install, standatrd kernel) No go. Can't find it anywhere. It seems the only way I can ever see the drive is when I am installing Gentoo, after the reboot, whoosh!! Gone.

Any ideas would be great.

TIA

hampton275 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 104

Anyone have any suggestions on this? I am running out of ideas.

Odin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Mar 2003 Posts: 92

You need to have the drivers for the serial ata device... Its probably a silicon image, so you'll need the silicon image drivers installed. Most newer kernels should have them.

edit - just checked Abit's site, and the serial ATA is controlled by a HighPoint chip it seems.. So look for HighPoint drivers in the kernel config..

hampton275 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 104

I am a little bit confused.
If Grub is kicking back an error 21. It can't find the kernel, which would mean that it is pre-kernel.
I will try your idea tonight to see if it makes a difference, I just don't understand how it could.