LInux on sdb

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

Greetings Rick ,

Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 01:06 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> 

>>
>>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. 
Well i suspected as much , but i was uncertain whether the Original Poster
knew the difference .  You see if the machine has an IDE Controller too 
then
you have to ask the machine to boot from the SCSI Controller .

For Dell machines, that'd be /dev/sda

Do Dell machines come with just a SCSI Controller on them ?
I guess /dev/sda still maintains if's original meaning of
the first SCSI disk .

(we use TONS of 1850s and 2850s).

You mean Adaptec Host  Adapter  1850 / 2850 ?


Kind Regards,
   Kostas




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