[TriLUG] Migrating IDE to SATA boot error

Joseph Mack NA3T jmack at wm7d.net
Tue Mar 14 11:17:06 EST 2006


On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Craig Duncan wrote:

> It should be there, we copied /boot so the kernel and initrd should be 
> identical.

but is it there? Without it, the BIOS will read the first 
sector and start loading the kernel, but unless the kernel 
has the SATA PCI card driver, the kernel can't read the disk

Joe

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