On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Hello Pat,
I've captured some data from /sys/firmware/edd with linuxboot CD of
unattended-4.4.zip
hda_* -> PATA as boot device (1x NTFS, 1x FAT32 partitions)
sda_* -> first SATA drive as boot device (no partition)
sdb_* -> second SATA drive as boot d
Steffen Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There are such files for the normal IDE drive, but not for the SATA
> disks.
Sorry to hear it. The value in /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/version
will tell you what EDD version your BIOS supports; only version 3.0
(0x30) or higher will support the hos
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Hello Pat,
Look under /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80. See if the data there
matches SATA device number 1, number 2, or both.
If your machine has a modern BIOS, there should be files named
"host_bus" and "interface" which uniquely identify the drive. I
Steffen Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can successfully make any of the three disks the BIOS boot device
> and it does boot the system installed there (or tells me "no active
> partition"); but the unattended boot disk differs between PATA and
> SATA only, hence, it makes no difference, if
Hello,
last week I reported that the script (of linuxboot CD of v4.4-test5)
successfully finds the SATA boot disk of an ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe.
I have configured:
PATA/normal IDE: 1 hard disk (Linux)
SATA channel #1: 1 hard disk (empty)
SATA channel #2: 1 hard disk (Windows)
The SATA channels are n
