[TriLUG] Serial ATA

[elfick]

Often there is a main bios setting to the effect of "Boot offboard 
controllers first" or something like that. Check to make sure that is 
disabled.
-Lee

Joseph Tate wrote:

> 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
>>
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