[TriLUG] Serial ATA

[Joseph Tate]

What you've got is a bios "drive letter" problem.  The new SATA card has 
it's own bios that gets loaded I'm sure.  Within this bios you should be 
able to specify some kind of boot order.  If not, you'll need to boot 
with a rescue disk or similar to figure out what your new drive letters 
are and change /etc/fstab and /etc/grub.conf and possibly 
/boot/grub/device.map to use the displaced drives.

Your new SATA drive is probably being recognized as /dev/hda and your 
old drive(s) have been moved to /dev/hdg or something.

Brian McCullough wrote:

> Hi, All.
> 
> I am in the process of adding a Serial ATA drive to an existing system.
> 
> I have bought the drive, the card and the cable. ( card is SIL3112 ( or
> thereabouts), as mentioned in the 2.4.24 kernel )
> 
> Everything compiles correctly and the kernel installs as expected.
> 
> However, now the fun begins.
> 
> The boot starts and we get to the point where it recognizes the card and
> drive, at which point it wants to treat this new, unformatted, "data"
> drive, as root!
> 
> Is this "normal" and should I be adding some "command-line" parameters
> during boot, or is there a "better way?"
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian
>