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Petric Frank wrote: |
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>Hello, |
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>given a mainboard having 2 SATA controllers. One VIA (from the chipset) and |
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>one additional Promise SATA. CPU is a AMD64. |
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>Up to now i had 2 SATA disks attached to the VIA controller. |
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>The kernel (2.6.14-r2) is built monolithic in regards of the SATA chips. |
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>Now i added a third harddisk and i recogized that the new disk was inserted |
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>before the other two. It seems that the promise kernel part is loaded before |
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>the VIA driver. |
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>So my question - is there a kernel parameter (to be given to grub.conf) which |
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>instructs the kernel to process the VIA kernel part first ? |
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>regards |
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> Petric |
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My Asus MB lets me pick which chipset to load first in the BIOS. You can |
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look there. |
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Another option would be to build the Promise driver is a module, and |
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load it during |
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the boot process. |
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