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 1EfOwb-0005ZM-K3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:47:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAOLkuVU012566; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:46:56 GMT Received: from tiger.arrival.home (cpc4-hem12-3-0-cust47.lutn.cable.ntl.com [213.105.83.47]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAOLh4xH023640 for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:43:04 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tiger.arrival.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB9B9964A3; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:43:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tiger.arrival.home ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tiger.arrival.home [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14462-08; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:43:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.0.175] (host213-120-114-43.in-addr.btopenworld.com [213.120.114.43]) by tiger.arrival.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id 685419649E for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:43:02 +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 v746.2) In-Reply-To: <7573e9640511232242y60a74c7dy958c3f8cc423da26@mail.gmail.com> References: <4383D496.2060001@tgharold.com> <7573e9640511232242y60a74c7dy958c3f8cc423da26@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <7A2CB1A4-0E71-4CF1-B8A0-C4DDF4362AD1@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Stroller Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Highpoint Rocket HPT302 PATA EIDE controller Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:13:53 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at arrival.home X-Archives-Salt: 87b1d4ac-5d8e-4092-a843-38db3b27acea X-Archives-Hash: f0373ef59919c790ba73cc787014f558 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list