[TriLUG] Serial ATA

[Brian McCullough]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 11:30:12AM -0500, Joseph Tate wrote:
> 
> Your new SATA drive is probably being recognized as /dev/hda and your 
> old drive(s) have been moved to /dev/hdg or something.


That's certainly the type of symptom that I am seeing.


> 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.


I guess what's confusing me is that the kernel is coming from the
"original" boot drive, but during the start-up sequence the order seems
to change.

I'll see what I can do to chase some of these thoughts, though.

Thanks,
Brian