Re: linux/SATA boot device

I installed fc2 without a problem on a new computer with sata drives.
Installed everything to the satas - the ide drive has win98se. No
problems at all. Could not get fc3 to install properly on the same
computer with no hardware changes. I added a second ide and tried to
load all of fc3 to it. No worky.

It appears to me that the installer when it sets up grub doesn't load
the sata drivers that the boot process needs. The files are all on the
sata drives in their proper places but /boot is incomplete. Grub.conf
doesn't even reference any of the sata drives.

HTH,

Larry Collier

Adam bultman wrote:
> volz wrote:
>
>
>>How can I determine if a particular mb with onboard SATA will work with FC3?
>>
>>I know the chipset.
>>
>>Googled some anecdotal evidence to suggest booting linux from SATA is occasionally
>>problematic.
>>
>>--
>>Karl Volz
>>(907)264-7427
>>volz@aeff.uaa.alaska.edu
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> You can try to search specific forums or help pages for your specific
> chipset.
>
> It totally depends on how old the chipset is, and if it's been built
> into the kernel (and more importantly, built into the kernel the install
> disk runs on)
>
> Anecdotal evidence from me: My boss got a shuttle box with SATA, but
> can't use it because the chipset wasn't supported by the OS he installed
> (RH9). A coworker just installed FC1 onto a dell server with SATA the
> other day, software RAID1.
>
>
> adam
>
>
>
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Received on Fri Feb 25 12:17:49 2005