Rob Hudson wrote: > 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.
Mr. O will eventually check his mail and tell us the right answer, but in the meantime, we amateurs get to guess. I don't think your PC is old enough to be limited to 20 GB disks. Check the Large Disk HOWTO, especially section 5.1, "LILO and the `lba32' and 'linear' options". Also see section 5.4. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
