From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Highpoint Rocket HPT302 PATA EIDE controller
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:41:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5fe7dad1b0c163f11918e6bed5cbfcdd@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7573e9640511232242y60a74c7dy958c3f8cc423da26@mail.gmail.com>
On Nov 24, 2005, at 6:42 am, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 11/23/05, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> ... Is there any way to get the kernel to
>> choose an IRQ for the HPT302? I thought this was what plug & play
>> operating systems were about. Can the kernel be invoked with an append
>> which will assign it the IRQ11 recognised by the LiveCD?
>
> It should also be possible to write a boot sector to the IDE disk that
> will boot from the SCSI disk. If your /boot partition is /dev/sda1,
> something like this might work:
>
> #echo "(hd0) /dev/hda" >/boot/grub/device.map.ide
> #echo "(hd1) /dev/sda" >>/boot/grub/device.map.ide
> # grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map.ide
> grub> setup (hd0) (hd1,1)
> ...
> grub> quit
After numerous attempts I've had no joy installing GRUB on the EIDE
drive & getting the Highpoint to boot from it - this is surely a quirk
of the server BIOS. If anyone has any other suggestions (please refer
to my earlier posts) I would be EXTREMELY grateful.
Stroller.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-22 23:00 [gentoo-user] Highpoint Rocket HPT302 PATA EIDE controller Stroller
2005-11-23 2:31 ` Thomas Harold
2005-11-24 6:00 ` Stroller
2005-11-24 6:42 ` Richard Fish
2005-11-24 21:13 ` Stroller
2005-11-28 2:41 ` Stroller [this message]
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