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 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.
Hmm. I've just never used a card to boot my systems. If one has SCSI, how does Linux load the kernel if it needs SCSI drivers to read from the device? I'd imagine a UDMA PCI card would be similar. > You might also want to look at the motherboard manufacturer's site to > see if they have a BIOS update which woudl help... Yep, I've got the latest. _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
