LInux on sdb

[Rick Stevens]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 01:06 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> Greetings Rick,
> 
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 22:42 +0530, mac wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Can we install linux / ,/home,/boot on sdb ??we installed linux as3 on
> >>a dell poweredge system and boot was on sdb7 ..when we reboot ,the OS
> >>does not boot !!
> > 
> > 
> > You can install Linux anywhere...so long as your boot loader (grub) can
> > find it.  Note, however, that grub has to be installed in the boot
> > sector of /dev/sda.
> 
> Rick ,  do you by any means assume that mac is booting from /dev/sda ?
> Which would be the  First SCSI Disk of the First SCSI Controller
> that he has installed ?

Well, yes.  You must have a boot loader (grub, lilo, system commander,
whatever) in the MBR of the first "active" disk.  For Dell machines,
that'd be /dev/sda (we use TONS of 1850s and 2850s).

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