Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Because the BIOS does not see the drive, there is no hd2 as far as >> Grub is concerned. The only way to fix that is a BIOS upgrade, or a >> SATA controller with its own BIOS. >> > > Note the expansion ROM is disabled, and I've played with wine quite a bit > trying to make it run something, hell anything, from the little 3" cd that > came with the card, but wine apparently can't even see the cd. And I don't > know jack schidt about wine or winderz. Only one machine here with a copy of > xp on it, hasn't been booted to xp but once in a year+, to see how googles > sketchup is supposed to work. > > I just tried to mount the disk, but its not mountable by any known M$ idiom > filesystem according to dmesg. > > There may be something on the disk that could enable the extension rom, if one > could figure out what sort of a disk it is. I may take the card, and both > disks to a winderz box and explore it there to see if there is some sort of a > software switch to enable this, but that will be after Christmas now. > Dumb question - is the CD bootable? If you can not mount it, then I suspect that it might be. This would be necessary if you are only using SATA drives, and you need to enable the ROM on the card before you can install an OS. >> This is because of the order the drivers are loaded. The SATA drive >> is on the first "SCSI" controller, and the PATA drives are on the >> second "SCSI" controller. So the SATA controller is scanned forst >> for drives, and then the PATA controller. Drive letters are assigned >> in the order the drives are found. > > What determines this scan order in the bootfile? > Well, if you only have the SATA drivers in initrd, then it will always be first. You can also specify the order in modprobe.conf, but you will probably have to rebuild the initrd before that will take affect. (You will have to find the exact format of the alias for the SCSI controllers, as I don't remember it off hand. scsi_controller_0 or something like that.) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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