unexpected grub breakage

[Doug Hunley]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:22, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just so that I'm clear, you're saying that you're *adding* new drives
> with this Highpoint RAID controller, and you're *not* moving the
> pre-existing drives to the Highpoint RAID controller?

Correct

>  If so, how
> large are these new disks, and are they really new blank disks, or
> were they previously used for some other purpose, and potentially have
> old, unknown mystery data on them?

they are 500Gb each, they were used elsewhere, not sure what's on them
though i believe it's an lvm container (or whatever the word is, I
dont have lvm on this box)

>
> What does your grub configuration file look like (grub.conf, menu.lst
> or wtf your distro uses to configure grub)?

cat /boot/grub/grub.conf:
default 0
timeout 10

splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/tux.xpm.gz

title=Linux (3.3.2-gentoo)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-3.3.2-gentoo quiet fastboot root=/dev/md127

title=Linux (3.3.1-gentoo)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-3.3.1-gentoo quiet fastboot root=/dev/md127

> Where in the SBIOS boot order is the new RAID controller, and where
> are the pre-existing disks?

dead last cuz that's where i put it to be ;)

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