From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EgZ2H-00074I-K9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:46:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAS2jdd6013779; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:45:39 GMT Received: from mra03.ch.as12513.net (mra03.ch.as12513.net [82.153.252.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAS2fr8u002627 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:41:53 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mra03.ch.as12513.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1EEED44EE for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:41:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mra03.ch.as12513.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mra03.ch.as12513.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18510-01-3 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:41:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.1.71] (213-152-39-89.dsl.eclipse.net.uk [213.152.39.89]) by mra03.ch.as12513.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F836D41E4 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:41:52 +0000 (GMT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) In-Reply-To: <7573e9640511232242y60a74c7dy958c3f8cc423da26@mail.gmail.com> References: <4383D496.2060001@tgharold.com> <7573e9640511232242y60a74c7dy958c3f8cc423da26@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <5fe7dad1b0c163f11918e6bed5cbfcdd@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Stroller Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Highpoint Rocket HPT302 PATA EIDE controller Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:41:43 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) X-Virus-Scanned: by Eclipse VIRUSshield at eclipse.net.uk X-Archives-Salt: ce97b46e-61fb-4e62-b958-1a12e20b19ca X-Archives-Hash: a98981c08e3fa6418f10aca4c88d17a9 On Nov 24, 2005, at 6:42 am, Richard Fish wrote: > On 11/23/05, Stroller 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list