SATA boot whish for FC3
Bjorn Andersen
ba at linuxin.dk
Tue Jul 20 21:09:10 UTC 2004
You missed the point.
I have 2 disks. One primary boot device /dev/sda and a secondary
IDE /dev/hda.
Fedora Core 1 and 2 both support my SATA disk, but the bootloader will
be installed on /dev/hda, with hda as primary boot device, if you have
an hda harddisk installed.
Regards
Bjorn Andersen
On tir, 2004-07-20 at 10:24 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > Since Fedora Core 1 and the support of SATA disks there haw been a
> > problem in detection of standard boot device.
> > The Fedora installer dont detect what device the bios will boot on.
> > Annaconda standard boot on /dev/hda if it is present, but the people
> > that have a SATA disk as primary boot device, will have to switch the
> > boot loader to that device. If not, the bootloader will not boot,
> > because it is set on hda (the secondary harddisk).
>
> Not so. FC2 installed out of the box (so to speak) without a hitch on
> my SATA/Promise MB. Needless to say, its been booting just fine since
> then. It is true that SATA support was missing in FC1, as it was first
> available in the 2.6 kernel. SATA drivers use /dev/sd? for the disks,
> of course.
>
>
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