SATA boot whish for FC3
Bjorn Andersen
ba at linuxin.dk
Wed Jul 21 15:26:46 UTC 2004
Well, SuSE and Windows knows what device to boot from (the SATA disk).
No problem there...
They must see it in the bios.
/Bjorn
On ons, 2004-07-21 at 07:46 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
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> On Wednesday 21 July 2004 03:32, Bjorn Andersen wrote:
> > I have a Intel Perl motherboard with a 2.4 Intel P4, HT processor. One
> > WD Raptor SATA as primary disk and one IDE Maxtor as primary IDE disk.
> >
> > GRUB is getting installed on /dev/hda but bios is booting on /dev/sda.
> > If i change the bios to boot on /dev/hda (GRUB install) the system boots
> > as it should from /dev/sda.
> >
> >
> > In config advanced alternatives for boot loader in GRUB install, the hda
> > is on top of sda and the GRUB will get installed on hda
> > See the top line: http://www.linuxin.dk/pictures/fc211.jpg
> > (sorry for the danish language)
> > But the standard place for loading linux kernel is /dev/sda2 (my /boot
> > partition)
> >
> >
> > Im not doing any "silly" things to the installer. Choosing STANDARD all
> > the way tru the installer, will not make the system boot.
>
> Ah, you have an IDE disk already in there. Anaconda has no way of knowing
> that you wish to boot from your SATA (it appears to anaconda as SCSI) disk
> over your IDE disk. Anaconda does the save thing and installs to the
> first harddrive it sees. Thats why when the Grub screen comes up you can
> adjust it. Don't confuse the GRUB install location (/dev/hda or /dev/sda)
> with the /boot location. GRUB installs to the master boot record of a
> DISK not to a PARTITION. /boot is a PARTITION.
>
> The mass majority of systems out there do in fact boot from the first
> harddisk detected. For those oddball systems that do not, Anaconda allows
> you to manually adjust. I'm not sure how this can be improved. Any
> further thoughts?
>
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