On 09/01/2008, Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If the computer really needs three Linux distrubutions, > it might be an option to re-arrange distros on disks. > > To actual debug why the 200Gb PATA doesn't work, > I would install Debian with it's kernel on another disk, > one that boots. When it has been seen working, > is the next step booting from the 200Gb PATA disk. > At that point has special care be taken to make sure > that disk /dev/sdX (or /dev/hdX) is the actual boot disk. > So no BIOS tweaking. > > > Cheers > Geert Stappers >
Thanks, I followed your advice and rearranged my different distro's on my computer. I do not really /need/ 3 different Linux distros but it is nice to test some. and it is nice to have some spare Linux which is not affected while something goes wrong. :-) ... But the following caught my attention: I have now Debian (already upgraded to sid) on the 250 SATA disk on the place where Ubuntu 7.10 was installed and it did indeed boots. But while in the installer i used partition 10 on the 200GB PATA disk as swap space this swap space was not used when i got Debian up and running. I found out that while the installer sees my disks as sda, sdf and sdg (sdf and sdg for my 2 PATA disks), the kernel sees the 2 PATA disks as sdb and sdc ... Anyway Debian runs again which made me happy. But still can see the messages: PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f0000000 is not E820-reserved PCI: Not using MMCONFIG. Not sure what to think of this. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]