On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 16:46, Kevin MacNeil wrote: > When I did this I hooked the new drive up to /dev/hda1, installed Redhat > 9, shut down, connected the disk to /dev/hde on the Promise controller, > changed the boot order in the bios to SCSI (i.e. PCI controller), and it > booted just fine. Redhat uses disk labels, and I believe the only entry > I had to change in /etc/fstab was to change swap from /dev/hda3 to > /dev/hde3. After getting it to boot cleanly from the new controller I > mounted my old partitions manually and copied over the stuff I wanted. > > Are you using a PCI controller, or is the ata100 controller built into > the motherboard? The reason I'm asking, you may need a bios upgrade if > your motherboard doesn't understand 120GB disks. >
I have an Asus A7V, with onboard Promise controllers, Rev 2.01.0 Build 39. The motherboard doesn't have any trouble with the 120GB disk. Do you suppose the "/dev/hde does not have corresponding BIOS drive" comment mean that your scheme of tricking RH into installing grub onto the new drive wouldn't work? I'd think if you could install it, it'd install it... At the moment I'm just leaving /dev/hda alone, not reformatting for awhile. I'm reconfiguring the install on /dev/hde and I've already copied everything from hda to hde, so if I need anything I already have it. I also figure that I'll end up installing Windows on hda so that it's not utterly confused (while I'm told XP can handle being on other partitions, I'm also told it requires a little fiddling, and I don't care to fiddle with Windows). > Hdparm tells me my new drive / controller (WD 80GB w/8mb cache, Promise > Ultra100 tx2) is more than twice as fast as my old 7200 rpm Maxtor on > the ata/33 controller. Actually the entire computer feels snappier, so I > guess swap is faster too ;-). > Yeah, starting up feels quite a bit faster, and I'm overall quite pleased at this point...just want to get everything finalized, at least in terms of where different OS's live. Thanks-- Marc -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
