Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 08/27/2010 12:49 PM, Dale wrote:
Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA
drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name them
and what drive is what without actually changing anything at all. Is
there a boot option "noide" or some other switch I can use?
You do the labeling *before* you switch to the new kernel. Once you
get it working correctly with your current kernel, then you can
upgrade to the new ATA drivers and it will just work (which is the
whole point of this exercise.)
OK. Finally got updated to a new kernel. I had some trouble with my
sensors but after a bit of googling I found a workaround. It appears
that the kernel folks are trying to fix one thing and broke something
else. lol Progress.
Anyway, this did sort of work out to be weird and not what I expected at
all. I expected the drives to be laid out in this way:
sda first drive with old ide
sdb second drive with old ide
sdc third drive with old ide
sdd forth drive with a SATA controller
Well, it actually sees the drive connected to the SATA controller first
then the other drives follow along after that in order. Naturally when
I first tried to boot I was pointing to sda6 for my root partition.
Well, it was actually on sdb6. It did list the drives just before the
error and the blinking lights on the keyboard. No scroll back either.
:-( I saw just enough to be able to figure out what drives were what.
Is there some way to get it to change this or am I stuck? My concern is
that I plan to add another drive to the SATA card soon and that will
move everything up another notch. I would really like the IDE drives
to be seen first since I rarely change them.
Still thinking about getting grub to see labels. That would help too.
Actually, that would be a good fix too.
Thanks.
Dale
:-) :-)
