my problem is that i have just purchased two hot-swap cages. One puts
2 laptop drives in a 3.5" bay that will be used to back up daily work
on a roster of 5 disks, the other is consists of 3 regular hard drives
in the space of 2x5.25" bays and currently houses the system hd, the
projects hd and a spare.
The hd configuration WILL change between re-boots and the fstab will
be wrong most of the time as the boot drive comes after the SATA card.
I can set the boot drive at start up from the BIOS but fstab stops the
system from booting. If there's a way of abstracting out the hard
device references in fstab I'm happy.
regards
On Sep 11, 2008, at 13:10, Peter Kay - Syllopsium wrote:
From: "Joseph A Borg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: forcing system disk to wd0
I just added a 4 port promise sata card and cannot figure a way of
forcing the sata ports on the motherboard to take precedence over
the sata pci card.
Any pointers to useful info would be greatly appreciated. I guess
i'll have to mess with the BIOS and IRQs but these are, till now
out of my radar.
You can't force a computer to do something the BIOS doesn't want it
to do. The booting process uses only the devices the BIOS, and addon
cards' BIOS control, in varying orders.
In other words, you're going to have to put a bootstrap on a device
that's in the booting sequence, even if it's not the final location
of /. It could be another hard disk, a flash drive - even a suitably
configured cdrom or floppy should work. A boot manager would
probably be easier and more flexible than configuring OpenBSD to
bootstrap off one device, and finish booting off another.
PK
