On Tuesday, 08.03.2005 at 11:39 -0700, JTH wrote: > Sorry if this is a repeat, I haven't seen my previous post show up. > > I?m trying out linux on my home computer, and I've run in to a problem > with the debian installation. First a little background. My computer > has an asus board with two sata controllers, promise & via. The drive > connected to the promise controller contains windows, and the drive > connected to the via controller contains suse, mandrake, & debian. > The drive containing linux is in a removable drive that I can power > down. My procedure for booting windows is to turn off the removable > drive containing linux, to boot one of the linux distributions, I turn > the removable drive on. This works just fine for suse and mandrake, > but for that to work in debian, I have to disable the promise > controller in bios, otherwise I get a kernel panic as debian tries to > mount the second partition of the drive connected to the promise > controller as the root partition. In other words it sees the drive on > the promise controller as sda instead of sdb like the other > distributions do. Is there an argument I can pass to the kernel at > boot that allows me to force which drive will be seen as sda? I've > tried searching but haven't come up with anything. What's your boot loader? In LILO you can change the boot order: see http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html - specifically, http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO-6.html Dave. -- Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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