Re: [gentoo-user] Highpoint Rocket HPT302 PATA EIDE controller

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 24 Nov 2005, at 6:42, Richard Fish wrote:
>
> My guess is that mucking with interrupts is not going to help.

To be honest, I thought that, too, but I thought it might be worth a go.

> There
> is usually an option to affect the boot order, typically named
> something like "Boot Off-Board controllers first".

I can't see an option like that. I reckon I'm usually pretty good at  
furtling around & finding relevant options but I'd be delighted to be  
proved wrong.

> If you can give
> the model number of the server, we can probably lookup the BIOS manual
> online and maybe give better advice.

It's a Compaq Proliant 6500.

> 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
>
> But, fair warning, I've never tried this, so I'm not sure how well  
> it will work.

I'll have a tinker with this next, probably over the weekend. Thanks  
for the pointer.

Stroller.

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