On 24 Nov 2005, at 6:42, Richard Fish wrote:
My guess is that mucking with interrupts is not going to help.
To be honest, I thought that, too, but I thought it might be worth a go.
There
is usually an option to affect the boot order, typically named
something like "Boot Off-Board controllers first".
I can't see an option like that. I reckon I'm usually pretty good at
furtling around & finding relevant options but I'd be delighted to be
proved wrong.
If you can give
the model number of the server, we can probably lookup the BIOS manual
online and maybe give better advice.
It's a Compaq Proliant 6500.
It should also be possible to write a boot sector to the IDE disk that
will boot from the SCSI disk. If your /boot partition is /dev/sda1,
something like this might work:
#echo "(hd0) /dev/hda" >/boot/grub/device.map.ide
#echo "(hd1) /dev/sda" >>/boot/grub/device.map.ide
# grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map.ide
grub> setup (hd0) (hd1,1)
...
grub> quit
But, fair warning, I've never tried this, so I'm not sure how well
it will work.
I'll have a tinker with this next, probably over the weekend. Thanks
for the pointer.
Stroller.
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