Grub2 and two Sil3114 chipset cards

[Kevin Stewart]

I have an intel system with running debian.

I have installed the system with grub2 all was working fine then I cam 
up with the smart idea to add more storage
5 SATA disks planning to software raid 5 them

with 1 ST Lab A-223, 4 port SATA card the system boots no problem
with 2 SATA cards installed 4 drives all on one of the cards the other 
card empty the system still boots, it does not matter which card I have 
the drives on
   the drives seem to respond correctly
if I run the drives split over the cards the system boots to the grub 
menu then tries to load the kernel and fails to a screen like below

Booting 'Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.18-3-686'

 [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x131990]
GRUB

I am running the debian package version of grub2 1.95-2

does anyone have any thoughts?

smudge:~# lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 650/M650 Host (rev 01)
       Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 650/M650 Host
       Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
       Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
       Capabilities: [c0] AGP version 2.0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI 
bridge (AGP) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
       Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64
       Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
       I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
       Memory behind bridge: ed000000-ed0fffff
       Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e0000000-e7ffffff

00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961 [MuTIOL 
Media IO]
       Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
       Flags: medium devsel
       I/O ports at 5c00 [size=32]

00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 
Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
       Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller
       Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 169
       Memory at ed102000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 
Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
       Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller
       Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 177
       Memory at ed100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 
d0) (prog-if 80 [Master])
       Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS5513 EIDE 
Controller (A,B step)
       Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 128
       I/O ports at f000 [size=16]

00:0b.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 
[SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
       Subsystem: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 SATARaid Controller
       Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 185
       I/O ports at a000 [size=8]
       I/O ports at a400 [size=4]
       I/O ports at a800 [size=8]
       I/O ports at ac00 [size=4]
       I/O ports at b000 [size=16]
       Memory at ed101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
       [virtual] Expansion ROM at 20000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
       Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

00:0d.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 
[SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
       Subsystem: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 SATARaid Controller
       Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 193
       I/O ports at b400 [size=8]
       I/O ports at b800 [size=4]
       I/O ports at bc00 [size=8]
       I/O ports at c000 [size=4]
       I/O ports at c400 [size=16]
       Memory at ed103000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
       [virtual] Expansion ROM at 20080000 [disabled] [size=512K]
       Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
       Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139
       Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 201
       I/O ports at c800 [size=256]
       Memory at ed104000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
       Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 
65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (prog-if 00 [VGA])
       Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP 
VGA Display Adapter
       Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel, IRQ 5
       BIST result: 00
       Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
       Memory at ed000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
       I/O ports at 9000 [size=128]
       Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
       Capabilities: [50] AGP version 2.0

smudge:~# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
 Vendor: ATA      Model: ST3320620AS      Rev: 3.AA
 Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi5 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
 Vendor: ATA      Model: ST3320620AS      Rev: 3.AA
 Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi6 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
 Vendor: ATA      Model: ST3320620AS      Rev: 3.AA
 Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi7 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
 Vendor: ATA      Model: ST3320620AS      Rev: 3.AA
 Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 05

smudge:~# hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
/dev/sda: ST3320620AS: 35 C
/dev/sdb: ST3320620AS: 38 C
/dev/sdc: ST3320620AS: 35 C
/dev/sdd: ST3320620AS: 37 C