Peter Stuge wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 11:32:25PM -0400, Tom Sylla wrote: >> Peter Stuge wrote: >>> On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:22:02PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: >>>>>>> FILO trunk can't boot from hdb, with or without my patch. Has >>>>>>> anyone ever been able to boot a kernel from a slave device? >> To clarify, there are still 2 devices attached, device 0 and device >> 1, but you want to boot from device 1? > > I only had 1 device, the slave. > > Should still work, no? > If not, what kind of tricks does the BIOS do to see the device?
More magic :) Take a look at reg_config and reg_reset in atadrvr. From the comments for reg_config: "// This process is not documented by any of the ATA standards." Try that mechanism out, and see if it works better. I didn't check, but the Linux kernel driver may do something similar. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios