On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, David Lockwood wrote:
(i) is this a SATA drive ? If it is, you should be using libata
(under
SCSI) in the kernel, and /dev/sda.
This is something I'd been wondering about and is probably my real
problem. Yes this is a SATA drive and that's all I have. My other linux
distro does recognise it as /dev/sda. I think my BIOS is clever enough
to handle it as an IDE which is why it works at all.
I think this *might* be controlled by one of the SCSI transport options
- there is some sort of deprecated option that conflicts with SATA, but
I'm on a ppc at the moment and I can't see it.
# CONFIG_SCSI_SATA is not set
I don't know how I missed this. I saw the others mentioned above and I'm
pretty sure they are correct.
I can remember I had to search 2 or 3 times, and I was looking for it,
so it's pretty anonymous in the middle of the options.
So I'll compare it to what I get after I fix the kernel. I'll have to
alter /etc/fstab - everything else should be OK I think?
Well, I could attempt to read your mind to determine what you are
subconsciously worrying about, but I think I'll just say "yes" :)
Oh, root= for your bootloader will need to refer to sdaX.
An interesting situation for recovery, if anything goes wrong (e.g.
kernel still thinks the drive is hda, fstab says sda), so you might have
to recover from the host distro or live CD. Good luck!
Ken
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