-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2010-03-14 at 21:11 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2010/03/15 01:48 (GMT+0100) Carlos E. R. composed:
On Sunday, 2010-03-14 at 20:38 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Have you tried putting Grub, kernel and initrd on USB or CD to get booted, and let the AHCI drivers find the disks that the BIOS pretends aren't there?
To what purpose?
Acquiring otherwise unavailable data that might ultimately lead to a better future.
I have done my bit of investigation, and I have been burned in the process. A few weeks ago we finally found a resource lock bug in xfs / kernel loop devices that crashed the kernel. Testing this caused my entire root filesystem (different from the xfs data filesystem being tested) to be destroyed entirely. I had to reinstall from scratch. I lost weeks of configuration work. The xfs bug has been found, but the cause of data destruction in the root (reiserfs) has not being investigated. I'm now very wary of doing tests. :-/
I need the machine to boot from HD
What's the difference if you can boot from USB instead to (possibly) achieve better performance?
USB is far slower than the HD. Look, tomorrow (now it is past 2 AM, and I get up at 6) I'll set the external sata drives to AHCI, and try to boot from the remaining internal disks, on IDE mode. I'll try to see if the external disks can be found. Is that good enough for you? - -- Cheers, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkudjSAACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VJ7gCghJPbGNHNaKeS2QzYuCArNDTb 6iQAn1LxmHzWPpRXGyIBAksv/eV4CBTz =GOW/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org