On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 21:09, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
SATA0 = 1TB (main drive with 4 partitions for various Linux distributions, 1 swap and 1 /home) SATA1 = 1TB (data drive1, single partition) SATA2 = 500GB (data drive2, single partition) SATA3 = 500GB (data drive3, single partition) SATA4= 320GB (Windows drive)
And how do you know that SATA 0 is 0 and not, say, 3? :-)
Ummm.. well.. Based on the SATA0 label on the motherboard, and the fact that the drive is the first one detected by the BIOS... so based on that.. I am calling it SATA0 :-)
/dev/sda = SATA2 /dev/sdb = SATA3 /dev/sdc = SATA4 /dev/hdc = SATA0 /dev/hdd = SATA1
Note that this time the two 1TB drives are picked up as hdc and hdd instead of sdd and sde.
huh? :-o
Exactly. But.. the replies on this thread got me to poke the BIOS a bit more, and I think maybe I've uncovered part of the reason for this... maybe. I have three advanced options for my onboard SATA controler(s).... One to enable it... One to set the SATA type (Native IDE, RAID, or AHCI) and the third... which might be the root of the weird drive order and detection... it's called "OnChip SATA Port4/5 Type" and I can choose between As SATA Type and IDE. The help for the IDE setting says that the SATA Port 4/5 Work at IDE mode. So.. guessing here... what I've been calling SATA0 and SATA1 are on Port4/5... and it was set to IDE mode... so in the case of Gentoo, it picked up the drives as IDE... thus hdc and hdd. The reason.. and I'm guessing here.. that it's hdc and hdd is because that controller looks to be sharing with the PATA controller in some way and the unused IDE0 and IDE1 would be picked up as hda and hdb? As I said.... just guessing while I try to figure this all out.
Otherwise, you have one grub in the MBR, as master grub, and this will load another grub (in any boot partition) as needed, chaining menus - but "makeactive" will not work. The advantage is that you need not use primary partitions and the number of grubs is not limited.
This might be ultimately the way I'll go with it... once I can get it all sorted :-P C . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org