From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LnGcj-0005Yb-9P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:17:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32A67E03EA; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A361E03EA for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6D6E6501F for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:17:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.83 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.83 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.231, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id oLBEnowtQQQ0 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:17:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D4A64FBD for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:17:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LnGcV-0002sZ-Af for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:17:31 +0000 Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:17:31 +0000 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:17:31 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Yikes, replacing sata 200gb with Sata 750gb .. no bootsky. Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:17:22 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <874oxeakzx.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <878wmr9f3u.fsf@newsguy.com> <49CCEF78.70802@anferny.me.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wMrj84YKFy/pHiirKTvmJ99Izbo= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: f69f37d3-21cf-4f44-bb6a-599123bd9dcc X-Archives-Hash: c7d80b7aae2361e3e5eeae47022a54d3 Anthony Metcalf writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: [...] >> > Sounds like the bios is seeing the drives in a different order now to > before, and so is trying to boot from the wrong disk.... > > Can you manually alter the order it tries disks? I can, and it is set directly to boot from master on first IDE controller. I haven't changed or messed with that in the course of this swap. So seems unlikely the bios has confused between IDE controller where the boot disk is, and PCI sata controller where the swap is taking place. It looked to me like the message would becoming from that PCI sata controller. " Press F3 to enter configuration utility Primary channel: WDC WD750-blah-bah " <= my new 750gb drive That doesn't look like something coming from the normal bios does it? The disk referred to is the new added one, of 2 on a PCI sata controller. And I've seen this message without a disk reference, every time I boot. Press F3 to enter configuration utility I've just ignored it and booting was fine. But now there is a disk reference and bootup stops there. Paul Hartman writes: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Setup: >> amd Athlon64 +3400 architecture >> >> I'm attempting to replace 2 200gb sata drives with 2 750 gb drives. > > Make sure your boot partition is not too far from the beginning of the disk. Boot partition is not involved here. Its on a a different (IDE) disk. Its not on a partition actually but in the MBR of Master drive on first IDE controller. The newly added disk is sata and is on a PCI sata controller (Adeptec 1205sa).