booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI
Okay---at this point I've rebooted my computer probably 50 times over
the last three days. I'm trying to install a new IDE hard drive and
have it run off of an IDE PCI controller. Everything that could go
wrong has, short of data loss (so I'm fuming, not crying :)
Anyway, sparing you my long story of frustration, here's my current
problem: I've got my "old" system running off of my SCSI disks. It
works fine. However, I just bought a Promise ATA/133 PCI IDE card and
a new IDE hard drive. I got my "new" system installed on the new
drive.
The problem is, my system still boots from SCSI. I have a Abit KT7
motherboard. It's bios options allow specifying of three boot
devices. I have Floppy, CDROM and IDE-0 (in that order). SCSI (among
others) is one of the boot options, but I *don't* have it selected
(verified this many a time, trust me :). Still, the system boots from
SCSI!!!! Arg, why?
I have verified that the new installation works: I powered down,
unplugged the SCSI cable and power cord on my SCSI drives, then booted
up. The new system comes up as expected.
I used fdisk to remove the bootable flag on my SCSI disk---that didn't
do anything.
The only other thing I could think of is using my rescue disk to do a
"rescue root=/dev/hda2" but this Promise ATA/133 controller needs a
patched kernel or a 2.4.19-pre3 (or newer) kernel to be supported. I
don't have such a rescue disk. I tried the "mkboot" command from the
"new" system; when I booted with *that* disk, it just froze when it
said "Loading Linux". Maybe it's a bad floppy. My rescue floppy
actually died on me in the middle of this (fortunately I have two). I
have the Debian install CDs, but I can't my system to boot from a SCSI
CD-ROM (but it LOVES to boot from SCSI disk). I already put my IDE
CDROM back in the other computer...
okay I'm starting to vent.
Any help?
Matt
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Matt Garman, matt@raw-sewage.net
``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!''
-- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk''
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