On 20031112.1850, Mr O said ...
Um, here I am. You shouldn't have any real trouble booting off
your PCI card. As long as the BIOS sees it as a boot device
you're in good hands. Linux will just see your drives as
/dev/hde or higher. As for booting from SCSI it loads the
drivers during the
Rob Hudson wrote:
My latest idea is to use the 6GB disk that's in there as the /boot,
swap, and backup drive. Then the new drive as the OS and web directory
drive on a PCI card.
In general, it's a good idea to put a swap partition on every drive in
the system. The partitions don't have to
It depends on your hardware, AFAIK, and then is up to the kernel, as to
how the drives get assigned during boot. Just dealt with some boot
seqence issues on SATA drives here at work, and the fix was to pass
boot prompt parameters to force an ordering which allowed booting from
the desired drive.
On 20031112.1047, Ben Barrett said ...
It depends on your hardware, AFAIK, and then is up to the kernel, as to
how the drives get assigned during boot. Just dealt with some boot
seqence issues on SATA drives here at work, and the fix was to pass
boot prompt parameters to force an ordering
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:09:20AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote:
I have a spare 40GB drive I was planning on putting in an old AMD K6-2
500 server. The machine is currently running off of a 6GB drive. I've
got 2 of these same machines -- 1 is running my websites, and the other
is at home as a
Um, here I am. You shouldn't have any real trouble booting off
your PCI card. As long as the BIOS sees it as a boot device
you're in good hands. Linux will just see your drives as
/dev/hde or higher. As for booting from SCSI it loads the
drivers during the boot. The SCSI BIOS handles getting the
