SCSI/IDE Drive number ordering

2001-11-14 Thread Joe Krahn
I installed a IDE drive to a system that boots from a SCSI disk. This causes GRUB to increment all SCSI disk numbers. Not exactly a bug, but I think GRUB should have seperate nomenclature for IDE/SCSI. (For example, in IRIX a disk is pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0)) The 'detailed'

Re: SCSI/IDE Drive number ordering

2001-11-14 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Krahn) writes: I installed a IDE drive to a system that boots from a SCSI disk. This causes GRUB to increment all SCSI disk numbers. Not exactly a bug, but I think GRUB should have seperate nomenclature for IDE/SCSI. (For example, in IRIX a disk is

Re: SCSI/IDE Drive number ordering

2001-11-14 Thread Christoph Plattner
I want to add to this mail . ... your bios has probably an option which says SCSI drives are first, and using the GRUB shell, it is useful and in some cases necessary to define a device map file. I have the same config, booting from SCSI and using additional an IDE disk. My device map is

Re: [Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr: Bug#111315: grub: problem with DAC960, kernel 2.4 and initrd]

2001-11-14 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
- Forwarded message from Laurent Bonnaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - I also tried passing the root= option as an hex value. I used: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.12-686 root(hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.12-686 root=0x4801 ro initrd

windows XP NTFS\redhat 7.2

2001-11-14 Thread Al Gerardi
I currently have windows XP home edition installed on my 19 gig hard drive IDE type. I want to partition a second drive 6 gig to use for linux redhat 7.2. I read that I shouldn't do a multi boot option with NTFS windows XP. I am going to use partition magic 7.0 version to setup the second

Re: [Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr: Bug#111315: grub: problem with DAC960, kernel 2.4 and initrd]

2001-11-14 Thread Jason Thomas
sorry here is a link to the original mail and followups: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=111315repeatmerged=yes On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:01:57PM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: Maybe try that, but I can't say that I know what your problem is. msg04606/pgp0.pgp

Re: [Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr: Bug#111315: grub: problem with DAC960, kernel 2.4 and initrd]

2001-11-14 Thread Adrian Phillips
Jason == Jason Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jason sorry here is a link to the original mail and followups: Jason http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=111315repeatmerged=yes Well, as he said and as I've seen, it works with 2.2 but not with some or all 2.4. Does grub do

GRUB passing DHCP discovered IP address to kernel

2001-11-14 Thread Abraham Pearson
Some time ago Paul Hedderly sent the following: I have a problem here. I'm using a net enabled network card to boot PCs using grub, to fetch a kernel from a tftp server and boot with an NFS mount (for installations). The problem is, grub can do DHCP just fine! The kernel can't. I don't know