On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 14:01, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
You nailed it. I set the controller to use AHCI (and set SATA Port4/5 to SATA instead of the default IDE), reset the drive order so that my boot drive was first... and rebooted. Each installed Linux distribution now sees the drives in the same order, assigns the same /dev node (not that critical I know, but nice to see) etc. Gentoo no longer sees two of the drives as IDE... it's all SATA now, and identical across all installs. That's the result I was aiming for.
Lucky you :-)
:-) Ha... well... I spent a little time and effort picking the motherboard, and so far it's done me well... Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3. It has loads of USB ports, SATA ports etc. It's not a good board though if you've got a newer nVidia card and still want to use the IDE ports.. the IDE socket is in a terrible spot.. right under where the vid card extends across the board. You can't plug in the IDE ribbon cable and the vid card at the same time.. the IDE connector is too high and you can't seat the vid card. not a prob for me though since I don't have any IDE drives.. all SATA including the DVD burner.
The problem is updates and upgrades. Each install will modify what it thinks is the correct grub, which is not... so you have to remember to adapt the correct one each time.
Yup. That's partly why I want to use the openSUSE Grub. It's my preferred OS by a long shot anyway... and I'd just have to copy the newlines if any into the boot grub... I actually prefer to set up a link to the kernel (if I can) and then point Grub at the link.. eg /boot/vmlinuz where vmlinuz points at the real kernel... and /boot/initrd etc... then Grub doesn't need an update... that's what openSUSE does... makes life a LOT easier.. just update the link and life is good. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org