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Re: ATA66 does not boot.
From: |
Gregory Gee |
Subject: |
Re: ATA66 does not boot. |
Date: |
Wed, 30 May 2001 21:14:59 -0400 |
address@hidden wrote:
>
>
> Looks like the extra HPT366 controller is an add-on to the
> motherboard, and the SMP part is hinting that you maybe have an
> ABit BP6?
>
You're right. I do have a BP6.
> I have one of these, and your problem is that, with no other
> drives installed (or even with drives installed on an ABit BP6
> with the BIOS order set to "EXT" before "C", and "EXT" set to
> "UDMA66"), you need to set the disk part of your "root" device
> statement in your GRUB menu file to:
>
> hd0
>
Actually, I still have C before EXT. If I plug a drive into
the primary ATA33 cable, this would appear in Linux as hda with
the ATA66 drive as hde. What do these map to in grub?
> You were assuming that BIOS device numbers follow the Linux
> device naming scheme, and that is not the case. The BIOS
> numbers them starting from the first one in boot order.
>
So your saying that hd0, hd1, ... has nothing to do with where in the IDE
chain you are. If I have drives on hda and hde, they will
be numbers hd0 and hd1 instead of hd0 and hd4?
Is there a grub command line utility to scan for available drives and
list what the hdX they are on?
> --
> Erich Stefan Boleyn <address@hidden> http://www.uruk.org/
> "Reality is truly stranger than fiction; Probably why fiction is so popular"
Thanks,
Greg