On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Bob Sanders <rsand...@sgi.com> wrote: > Mark Knecht, mused, then expounded: >> Hi, >> This is related to my thread from a few days ago about the >> disappointing speed of my RAID6 root partition. The goal here is to >> get the machine booting from an SSD so that I can free up my five hard >> drives to play with. >> >> SHORT SUMMATION: I've tried noninitrd and noraid in the kernel line of >> grub.conf but I keep booting from old RAID instead of the new SSD. >> What am I doing wrong? >> > > Can the boot order be changed in the bios? >
Not sure. Will investigate. > Was grub-install run on the SSD and saved to the SSD's MBR? > Not yet but planned. > If, possible, can the SATA cables be moved such that the SSD is drive 0? > Would prefer not to. I want to keep the current boot as default as I need to work during the day. Once I get the AAD booting I might be open to rearranging things but at that point I assume I won't have to. > And, it might be useful to mount by-id or by-uuid - > Will keep in mind. After writing the first note it dawned on me that if the live system copy had worked as per the Arch Linux doc then I should have been able to chroot into the SSD. Unfortunately it didn't work so I blew away the SSD and started over from scratch with a clean install using the Gentoo AMD64 Install Guide. I haven't tried chrooting into it yet. Maybe this evening. Thanks for the ideas. - Mark
