I'm trying to install SuSE on a new computer that has 2 ide hard drives and 1 Promise Ultra66 drive. The thing that I am trying to accomplish is having the ultra66 drive be /dev/hda. Currently it is /dev/hde. With the ide cables, I can physicallyange the order the block devices are assigned. Is there a way to set the kernel to change the device order on boot-up? <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm trying to install SuSE on a new computer that has 2 ide hard drives and 1 Promise Ultra66 drive.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The thing that I am trying to accomplish is having the ultra66 drive be /dev/hda. Currently it is /dev/hde. With the ide cables, I can physicallyange the order the block devices are assigned.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there a way to set the kernel to change the device order on boot-up?</FONT></DIV></BODY>
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, S. Smith wrote:
I'm trying to install SuSE on a new computer that has 2 ide hard drives and 1 Promise Ultra66 drive.
The thing that I am trying to accomplish is having the ultra66 drive be /dev/hda. Currently it is /dev/hde. With the ide cables, I can physicallyange the order the block devices are assigned.
Is there a way to set the kernel to change the device order on boot-up?
Can't you go to your BIOS and select the "boot up" hard-drive? IIRC, I did this once... maybe not?! Alvaro Novo SuSE 6.4 Kernel 2.2.16 KDE 2 - Beta 4 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
You could leave it as it is. Just write down where you have your partitions since it's not the familiar hda through hdd. The only problem you might have is with LILO since it can only work with hda or sda. Other than having a small DOS partition and booting up with LOADLIN, I'm not sure how to resolve that particular problem. Christopher Reimer On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, S. Smith wrote:
I'm trying to install SuSE on a new computer that has 2 ide hard drives and 1 Promise Ultra66 drive.
The thing that I am trying to accomplish is having the ultra66 drive be /dev/hda. Currently it is /dev/hde. With the ide cables, I can physicallyange the order the block devices are assigned.
Is there a way to set the kernel to change the device order on boot-up?
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With some mobos, the Promise card will appear after the onboard IDE controller. AFAIK, if you set your BIOS to boot from SCSI it will take the Promise controller first (the Promise will appear to some BIOSs as a SCSI card even though it is IDE). My machine seems to take the Promise in preference to my mobo IDE so I haven't had to do this. Hope this helps. Sean. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 31/08/2000 at 16:08 S. Smith wrote: I'm trying to install SuSE on a new computer that has 2 ide hard drives and 1 Promise Ultra66 drive. The thing that I am trying to accomplish is having the ultra66 drive be /dev/hda. Currently it is /dev/hde. With the ide cables, I can physicallyange the order the block devices are assigned. Is there a way to set the kernel to change the device order on boot-up? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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