* Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot
@ 2011-08-18 23:29 99% ` Peter Humphrey
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From: Peter Humphrey @ 2011-08-18 23:29 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Thursday 18 August 2011 20:42:30 Michael Mol wrote:
> Don't forget to check your BIOS. You might also consider enabling
> "SCSI-generic (disk)", which would catch ide-emulated disks and put a
> scsi interface around them in the kernel.
But it might well shove a generic driver in before the specific one has a
chance. The docs warn of this.
> Finally, check that it's coming up as "/dev/sda" and not something
> like "/dev/sdb".
Good advice (if I may presume). BIOSes often have weird detection orders:
I'm still not sure I've got the right optical drive order on my
superannuated workstation.
--
Rgds
Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
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