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On 26 July 2010 11:54, William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> Fixed it - was grub after all - it renumbered my drives (0 and 1 |
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> swapped :( |
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> Complicated because this was one of the early sata boards with a fake |
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> raid chip to handle the sata while the old IDE drives were on the normal |
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> bus. |
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> Further complicated by the bios and raidchip changing drive assignments |
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> depending on which drive/cd/floppy you booted from (i.e., what grub sees |
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> as the drive numbers changes when the real OS is booted). I forgot what |
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> hoops I had to jump through to get this going originally. |
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> Might be time for a new setup - amd athlon 2500+ are not so cool these |
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> days :) |
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Glad you got it working! Another gotcha is when you disable the |
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deprecated CONFIG_IDE in the kernel and you don't update your |
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grub.conf and /etc/fstab to rename /dev/hda's into /dev/sda's. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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