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On 24 Nov 2005, at 6:42, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> My guess is that mucking with interrupts is not going to help. |
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To be honest, I thought that, too, but I thought it might be worth a go. |
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> There |
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> is usually an option to affect the boot order, typically named |
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> something like "Boot Off-Board controllers first". |
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I can't see an option like that. I reckon I'm usually pretty good at |
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furtling around & finding relevant options but I'd be delighted to be |
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proved wrong. |
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> If you can give |
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> the model number of the server, we can probably lookup the BIOS manual |
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> online and maybe give better advice. |
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It's a Compaq Proliant 6500. |
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> It should also be possible to write a boot sector to the IDE disk that |
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> will boot from the SCSI disk. If your /boot partition is /dev/sda1, |
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> something like this might work: |
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> #echo "(hd0) /dev/hda" >/boot/grub/device.map.ide |
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> #echo "(hd1) /dev/sda" >>/boot/grub/device.map.ide |
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> # grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map.ide |
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> grub> setup (hd0) (hd1,1) |
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> ... |
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> grub> quit |
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> But, fair warning, I've never tried this, so I'm not sure how well |
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> it will work. |
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I'll have a tinker with this next, probably over the weekend. Thanks |
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for the pointer. |
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Stroller. |
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