New SATA Hard Drive
rlengland at verizon.net
rlengland at verizon.net
Thu Sep 20 21:59:02 UTC 2007
>From: Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>
>Date: 2007/09/20 Thu PM 03:53:03 CDT
>To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: New SATA Hard Drive
>Phil Meyer wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>> Today I installed the SATA hard drive I ordered and on the
>>> motherboard I found a SATA power plug and I plugged this drive into
>>> the SATA1 plug. I looked at the BIOS and it calls it an IDE drive but
>>> way out in position. I saw no way to tell BIOS it is really a SATA
>>> drive. I guess this is normal :-)
>>>
>>> I went looking for the new hard drive with "fdisk" and it was
>>> called /dev/sdf by this F7 computer. I plan to put Windows XP in the
>>> first partition so it will be happy. It's an 8 GB partition so it
>>> will be enough since I will never use it.
>>>
>>> Linux will be this F7 transfered to that hard drive in parts. Or
>>> it may be a whole new load. This has not been worked out yet.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Karl, cat /proc/cpuinfo and look for vm in the flags. You way want to
>> give up dual boot in favor of virtual OSes. Makes life much easier if
>> there is a Windows app you just cannot live without.
>>
>> Its no good for gaming or video intensive apps right now, but most
>> else it works at normal performance using the kvm module and qemu-kvm.
>>
>> You can test easily enough.
>>
>> # modprobe kvm-intel
>> or
>> # modprobe kvm-amd
>>
>> No errors on the command line?
>>
>> # dmesg | tail
>>
>> No errors regarding the kvm module?
>>
>> You can successfully run windows (or whatever) using the kvm switch on
>> your CPU and the kvm module built into the newer kernels.
>>
>> # yum install kvm qemu ( you need both versions of qemu because all
>> the utilities are not included in the kvm package)
>>
>> No need to reboot again, ever! :)
>>
>> Good Luck!
>>
>>
> Phil no idea who the words were for. Nothing you said has anything
>to do with a SATA hard drive.
>
>
>
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The words were for you, Karl. He is giving you an alternative to dual booting your system by running a virtual machine.
I know about your new SATA drive, how you know that you don't have to dual boot if you don't want to.
~~R
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