Re: Added SATA drive, now it won't boot

[Tracy Reed]

Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> Add
> 
> echo "Preparing to load kernel"
> sleep 5

I didn't realize one could do this. What language is grub running here?
Is this bash or something else? Just how much programming can be done in
grub.conf? Not that one should ever do anything complicated in a grub
config.

> Remove "quiet" so you can kernel output. Add

This did it!  I added the code as you recommended, removed quiet, and
saw:

Preparing to load kerenl
Kernel loaded: preparing to load initrd
Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)...

The stupid EDD problem! How embarassing. I've seen this before and would
have known exactly what to do if the kernel hadn't been hiding things
from me. I normally remove quiet etc. to see the boot messages too. No
idea why I hadn't tried that already. Probing for EDD on boot with the
SATA drives in was causing the hang. But only with the combination of
NVMe and SATA in the system at the same time. Weird. I don't understand
much at all about how this EDD magic works but is is very annoying!

Thanks all for the suggestions! At least I learned a few things about
grub2 along the way.

-- 
Tracy Reed

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