----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Kelsoe" <randykel@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [FC2] Booting from SATA disk Gigabyte 8IPE1000PRO2 > Marc Lucke wrote: > > > I have asked what looks like it might be a cold, lonely question about > > booting with the FC2 kernel from my SATA drive on my Gigabyte 8IPE1000 > > PRO2 m/b so I'm going to pop the question: does anyone out there have > > similar problems? Better yet does anyone have a motherboard/sata > > combo like me? Can you relate your experience? Then I'll know if my > > problem is something dumb that is specific to me or if it is a problem > > with FC2 > > > From your previous post: > > "I can get FC2 (kernel 2.6.5-1.358smp) to boot by mounting the initrd; > editing linuxrc to load the mod_scsi, libata, sd_mod & ata_piix modules > on boot; and then unmounting and replacing the original initrd. This is > OK in that it works however from about kernel 2.4.24 it was unnecessary; > the sata drive showed as "hde" and performance was many times better. " > > Since no one else has replied, I will give this a shot. With the 2.4 > kernel, you were using the PATA driver for the SATA. Since you have > loaded libata, you are using the new PATA driver with the 2.6 kernel. I > am not sure which SATA chipset your motherboard is using (GigaByte web > site is unclear), so you might want to look at: > > http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2004/May/1809.html > > and see the status. libata is still new, and supports some chipsets > better than others. Could be libata is having problems with your > chipset? Might also be a setting in your bios. > > Maybe you could not load libata and ata_piix on your next boot, and see > if you can get better performance using the PATA driver. > I have a K8V with sata and although FC1 installed fine and recognised everything FC2 appears to recognise it and load the drivers but fails and aborts the install. I am sure that the sata drivers in FC2 don't work with my MB Jeff
