Re: booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 01:39:02AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 21:59, Matt Garman wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > 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
>
> Three things:
> 1. Maybe you _can't_ boot off of the Promise controller, since you
> don't have the proper kernel.
> 2. what does lilo.conf say are the values of the boot and root
> variables?
> 3. In the kernel build process, there's an option to allow booting
> off of an external PCI card. Maybe that option is not set in
> your kernel.
>
One thing I will add to this list is be aware that you will need to
change your /etc/fstab to reflect your new disk location. More than
likely it will be /dev/hde
kent
--
To know the truth is to distort the Universe.
Alfred N. Whitehead (adaptation)
Reply to: