Ben Reser
Mon, 03 Nov 2003 13:03:38 -0800
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:16:25PM -0600, Isaac Csandl wrote: > A few months ago, I was having trouble with the Ultra-ATA drive in a dual G4 > tower. The 9.1 system would install, but not boot. Eventually I gave up and > moved the HD to the "normal" ATA bus on the motherboard. The drive won't show > up at all in the normal mdk kernels, smp or enterprise, if it's connected to > the Ultra ATA bus. > > But recently I figured out what seems to be a strange quirk. The Ultra drive > shows up as /dev/hde when you boot the rescue CD with 'install-gui-benh > rescue text video=ofonly', but when I booted the machine from the HD with the > benh kernel, it shows up as /dev/hda. Odd.
Could be as simple as a bootloader configuration that's changing the order it is seeing the IDE buses in. Which order things are seen in is pretty much always subject to change. Even moving a card from one slot to another can change it. > On the HD, I've installed the recent benh kernel from Mandrake Club, version: > 2.4.21-1bh-mdksmp, which is working well (it feels as fast as before, > although only one CPU shows in gkrellm -- i'm curious if this is correct, but > content that it works for now... thoughts, anyone?). What's the output of /proc/cpuinfo? -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken