On 5/28/07, Alan Womack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The drive I want to boot from is on the Adaptec 3940 which is a scsi drive. > > The other drive is an IDE drive. If I have the IDE drive in the > system, it either hangs or the intel boot manager complains about the > cable. > > If I take it out, then the scsi drive will load grub, but that changes > the hd0 vs hd1 situation. > > I've tried with the IDE changing the cable. > > Trying No jumper, designating master, and using cable select in both > positions. > > I have not tried having TWO ide's in there yet. > > Alan
Hmm, this is not cool :P Changing jumpers etc for one of both wouldn't help. However, you could take a look in the BIOS, and see if you can change the order of the hard drives, i don't expect it, but you never know. So, you would end up with changing configuration for a single boot up ... Best way is, i think, to not to edit the grub boot file, but just press the 'e' key to edit to boot line. Also, you could try to hot plug the drives, it's not supported by all chipsets, and if you do something serious wrong, then you might damage your hard drive, but if you do it carefully, it won't happen :) What to do is this, boot up your system with only the new hard drive, once it is running, plug in the new drive (Data cable first, than power cable), and it should get detected by udev. if it doesn't run the following commands: udevtrigger udevsettle and wait for those commands to be finished, you're new drive should have been added to /dev now. then you can simply mount and copy :) Tijnema > > On 5/28/07, Tijnema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/28/07, Alan Womack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm working with stable 6.2 using the book on the live CD. > > > > > > My issue is trying to get my Dell Optiplex G110 to complete the boot into > > > LFS. > > > > > > I have an adaptec 3940 card connected to an IBM drive that I want to > > > boot too. I can at least get to GRUB if I take the IDE drive off the > > > system completely. > > > > > > If I leave the WD IDE drive on line, I am unable to boot successfully. > > > > > > I need the IDE temporarily to move the files from my old LFS (5.1) to > > > the new one, so I can expand the size of that old drive from it's > > > limit of 32gig (so that system would boot) to 100gig so I have room > > > for all my digital media files these days. > > > > > > I could make a cd-rom GRUB disk I suppose if necessary. I took the > > > floppy out to make room for the scsi cables and drive. > > > > > > Alan > > > > This has probably to do something with Master & Slave settings, You > > probably have your drives set at Cable Select, and so the order of the > > hard drive's change when a hard drive is unplugged. So, you could > > solve this inside linux, but then you would need to change it back > > when you unplug the other hard drive again, i think. > > So, if it's the problem, swap the data cables of both hard drives > > should fix the problem. > > > > Tijnema > > -- > > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
