"J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
> Lets look at this (perhaps I have too much coffe also, and all that comes
> is stupid).
> If your disk is the slave in the first ide channel, it should be named hdb.
> So I assume you have one other hd and a cdrom. Lets suppose:
> Your hds are on the IDE 1: hda (the old) and hdb (as you should see it)
> Your cdrom is at hcd (master at IDE 2).
> And if your bios swaps your ide channels when booting from cd at IDE 2,
> and hdb becomes hdd ?
Well, after watching the 'thread' for a while, I've noticed the following
things:
1 - arrangement seems to be:
controller channel hd<x> comments
0 0 hda main drive as master
0 1 ? unknown
1 0 hdc cdrom as master
1 1 hdd hard drive as slave
2 - when booting one way (the install cd, I think) /dev/hdd seems to
work
3 - when booting another way (off the installed system, I think) /dev/hdd
seems to not work.
Ok so I have a few questions and obvservations/theories:
1 - something is different between how the install sets things up
and how the installed system sets them up (duh!), such that
the hard drive is either at /dev/hdc, or something else strange.
Would it be possible to see the dmesg's from the two boots?
2 - Rumor has it that hard drives don't like being slave to a
cdrom drive, and/or that cdrom drives don't like to be
master to a hard drive. Have you tried putting the 2nd
hard drive as master over the cdrom or as slave to the
first hard drive? (Assuming there is no hard drive there
in hdb already! ;-)
rc
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