Subject: Re: Ordering the IDE devices...
From: Joshua J.Kugler (isd@as.uaf.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 11 2003 - 10:57:51 AKDT
Yahoo! That did the trick. My intended boot drive (primary master,
on-board) is now hda. Thanks much!!
j----- k-----
On Thursday 07 August 2003 23:29, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> There is a kernel option switch called 'ide=reverse', it could be that
> your distro has something in one of the start-up scripts that detects an
> add-on ide card and assumes you would prefer to use it as your main
> controller.
>
> You might check 'dmesg' to see if its being used or add ide=reverse to
> grub or lilo to see if it will change back.
>
> Jim Gribbin
>
> On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 16:30, Joshua J.Kugler wrote:
> > We just purchased, for our server, a very nice Promise Ultra133 TX2 dual
> > IDE controller. Works fine: boots up, detects drives, Mandrake install
> > recognizes it, and everything.
> >
> > The problem comes when it's time to partition. My two big drives (each
> > masters on their channel on the TX2) show up as hda and hdc. The master
> > drive hanging off the primary channel on the motherboard shows up as hde.
> > Not what I was intending.
> >
> > 1. Is there anything wrong with this? Can I put /boot on hde and still
> > have lilo write to the MBR on hda and boot from there?
> >
> > 2. Is there any way to modify this? The Promise controller doesn't come
> > up with any options when it boots, or any way to modify its
> > configuration.
> >
> > I just wasn't planning on making one of my RAID 1 /home drives hda and
> > boot from there. If one of the /home mirrors fails, I still want to be
> > able to boot the system (preferably without a floppy).
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > j----- k-----
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