Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

[Dale]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 09/01/2010 03:38 AM, Dale wrote:
>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> On 08/27/2010 12:49 PM, Dale wrote:
>>>> Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA
>>>> drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name them
>>>> and what drive is what without actually changing anything at all. Is
>>>> there a boot option "noide" or some other switch I can use?
>>>
>>> You do the labeling *before* you switch to the new kernel. Once you
>>> get it working correctly with your current kernel, then you can
>>> upgrade to the new ATA drivers and it will just work (which is the
>>> whole point of this exercise.)
>>>
>>
>> OK. Finally got updated to a new kernel. [...]
>>
>> Anyway, this did sort of work out to be weird and not what I expected at
>> all. I expected the drives to be laid out in this way:
>>
>> sda first drive with old ide
>> sdb second drive with old ide
>> sdc third drive with old ide
>> sdd forth drive with a SATA controller
>>
>> Well, it actually sees the drive connected to the SATA controller first
>> then the other drives follow along after that in order.
>
> I mentioned this in a reply :P  Usually SATA drives go first.
> (Emphasis on "usually.")

I must have missed that part.  Of course, I'm not surprised either.  You 
know what they say about "plans"?

>
>
>> Naturally when I
>> first tried to boot I was pointing to sda6 for my root partition. Well,
>> it was actually on sdb6. It did list the drives just before the error
>> and the blinking lights on the keyboard. No scroll back either. :-( I
>> saw just enough to be able to figure out what drives were what.
>>
>> Is there some way to get it to change this or am I stuck? My concern is
>> that I plan to add another drive to the SATA card soon and that will
>> move everything up another notch. I would really like the IDE drives to
>> be seen first since I rarely change them.
>
> What exactly is the problem you have?  You can't boot?  You can simply
> hit "Esc" in grub and go to text-only mode, and then "e" to edit the
> current grub boot entry.  There you can boot from somewhere else.
>
>

I would like either the old IDE drives to come first, since I rarely 
ever move them or grub to work with labels.  I have a entry in grub.conf 
that uses the labels but i have not rebooted yet.  According to what I 
have read it will work.  The only concern is that if grub doesn't like 
labels and I add another  drive, then I got to edit the grub boot line 
to boot and it took me a couple tries to get this right.  It seeing what 
used to be the last drive first sort of took me by surprise.  I don't 
like surprises to much.

At least I got me a new kernel and I can see the temps and fans in gkrellm.

Dale

:-)  :-)