SATA boot whish for FC3

Pedro Fernandes Macedo webmaster at margo.bijoux.nom.br
Tue Jul 20 17:42:59 UTC 2004


Geoffrey Leach wrote:

> 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.

BTW , what changed between FC2 and FC3T1 kernels regarding sata disks? 
On FC2 , I have to use the hd[efgh]=noprobe arguments or the system will 
take ages to boot (because it sits there waiting a timeout from the 
device), while on FC3 it isnt needed....

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Pedro Macedo





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