Multiple SATA disks, two OSs and booting problem

Hi,

I have got motherboard that has support for four (4) SATA devices. I have installed Debian 4.0r2 AMD64 on filesystem witch has been build on top of LVM system. LVM is on top of software-raid1 device md0 with two SAMSUNG SP1614C (SATA) disks. Everything works well.

But if I connect two other disks (SATA2), there is volume group (named VG1) on those disks and KnoppMyth OS installed on one partition of the other disk, booting into Debian fails.

Further investigated: If I connect either of the two KnoppMyth VG1 disks Debian boots well.

And while all disks connected booting into KnoppMyth goes well.

Here is the output:
kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/mapper/VG0-LV--swap) = dm-8(253,8) kinit: trying to resume from /dev/mapper/VG0-LV--swap Attempting manual resume
kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot... resume: libgcrypt version 1.2.3
resume: Could not read the image
Done.
kjournald starting. Commit internal 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... Done.
Done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ...
mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or directory
Done.
mount: Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory mount: Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init

BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-4) Built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned of (initramfs)

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Here is the illustration of the disks:
Debian:

    /boot (LV-dir-boot)
    /usr (LV-dir-usr)
    /var (LV-dir-var)
    /home (LV-dir-home)
    /usr/local (LV-dir-usr-local)
    / (LV-root)
    /tmp (LV-dir-tmp)

        LV-dir-boot
        LV-dir-usr
        LV-dir-var
        LV-dir-home
        LV-dir-usr-local
        LV-root
        LV-dir-tmp
        LV-swap
    VG:
        VG0

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    hde

       hde1 (Auto RAID)
    hdg

       hdg1 (Auto RAID)

    SAMSUNG SP1614C (hde)
    SAMSUNG SP1614C (hdg)

KnoppMyth:

    / (sdb1)
    swap (sdb2)

        myth
    VG:

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        VG1 (sda2, sdb3)

    sda

        sda1 (linux swap)
        sda2 (linux LVM)
    sdb
        sdb1 (linux)
        sdb2 (linux swap)
        sdb3 (linux LVM)

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    SAMSUNG HD300LJ (sda)
    SAMSUNG HD321KJ (sdb)

Tero Mäntyvaara

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