A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 02:19:11PM -0700, Alan Womack 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. > So, what is this 'intel boot manager' ? Does it run before grub or after ? It is something you used when you only had the IDE drive ? I've seen cable problems (although I've never seen anything that complained) - for IDE it doesn't always work if you have only a slave, and perhaps with CS and the drive connected at the slave position it might fail. With SCSI, termination is important. On an old machine (and if it had a 32GB limit, it must be old), do you have a power supply capable of spinning up two drives ? Can you go in to the bios and play with the boot order, or tell it that the IDE drive isn't there ? (no guarantees linux will be able to find an IDE if the bios has disabled it, but very possible). ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
