SATA boot crash

[Thomas Andrews]

Hi,

I get garbage displayed as soon as either the MBR or stage 1 is loaded,
and the machine crashes. I've just installed two brand new Western
Digital WD3200YS disk in a (debian) RAID-1 configuration. I have an
Intel PERL 2.8GHz motherboard.

I'm currently booting from a grub floppy until I can fix this. The
previous disks in the machine were IDE disks, and grub worked fine. The
new disks have all the old data, so all the grub files are present.

I installed grub like so:

grub> device (hd0) /dev/sda
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> device (hd0) /dev/sdb
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)

Here's some info about the disks:

    # hdparm -I /dev/sda

    /dev/sda:

    ATA device, with non-removable media
            Model Number:       WDC WD3200YS-01PGB0                     
            Serial Number:      WD-WCAPD2664999
            Firmware Revision:  21.00M21
    Standards:
            Supported: 7 6 5 4 
            Likely used: 7
    Configuration:
            Logical         max     current
            cylinders       16383   16383
            heads           16      16
            sectors/track   63      63
            --
            CHS current addressable sectors:   16514064
            LBA    user addressable sectors:  268435455
            LBA48  user addressable sectors:  625142448
            device size with M = 1024*1024:      305245 MBytes
            device size with M = 1000*1000:      320072 MBytes (320 GB)

Here's my grub config:

    # cat /boot/grub/menu.lst 
    default         0
    timeout         5
    color           cyan/blue white/blue

    title           2.6.17.7
    root            (hd0,0)
    kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17.7-zorg root=/dev/md0 ro

Here's the version info about grub:

    # dpkg -l grub | grep grub
    ii  grub    0.97-16.1    GRand Unified Bootloader

Many thanks,
Thomas