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. In my case, I couldn't boot Knoppix from the CD-ROM since the two SATA controllers bumped the auto-assignment of the CDROM drive high enough (ie, hdj IIRC) that Knoppix did not seek it out.
You might also want to look at the motherboard manufacturer's site to see if they have a BIOS update which woudl help... regards, Ben On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:09:20 -0800 Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Dear EUGLUG, | | 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 test machine. | | When I put the 40GB drive in there, the motherboard only saw 20GB of | it. So my idea was to get a EIDE PCI card which would have the added | benefit that I could run the 40GB drive at full UDMA100 speed. But | this makes me curious if the kernel will need the driver for the PCI | card, and would that mean I'd have to boot from floppy? Or would it | just mean that the boot partition needs to be at the beginning of the | drive so the motherboard can see it and once Linux is loaded, the rest | of the drive is visible? | | I'm always confused by where Linux overcomes motherboard deficiencies. | | Thanks, | Rob | _______________________________________________ | EuG-LUG mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
