Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can initrd and/or RAID be disabled at boot?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Bob Sanders <rsanders@sgi.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht, mused, then expounded:
>> Hi,
>>    This is related to my thread from a few days ago about the
>> disappointing speed of my RAID6 root partition. The goal here is to
>> get the machine booting from an SSD so that I can free up my five hard
>> drives to play with.
>>
>> SHORT SUMMATION: I've tried noninitrd and noraid in the kernel line of
>> grub.conf but I keep booting from old RAID instead of the new SSD.
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>
> Can the boot order be changed in the bios?
>

Not sure. Will investigate.

> Was grub-install run on the SSD and saved to the SSD's MBR?
>

Not yet but planned.

> If, possible, can the SATA cables be moved such that the SSD is drive 0?
>

Would prefer not to. I want to keep the current boot as default as I
need to work during the day. Once I get the AAD booting I might be
open to rearranging things but at that point I assume I won't have to.

> And, it might be useful to mount by-id or by-uuid -
>

Will keep in mind.

After writing the first note it dawned on me that if the live system
copy had worked as per the Arch Linux doc then I should have been able
to chroot into the SSD. Unfortunately it didn't work so I blew away
the SSD and started over from scratch with a clean install using the
Gentoo AMD64 Install Guide. I haven't tried chrooting into it yet.
Maybe this evening.

Thanks for the ideas.

- Mark