On Saturday 14 October 2006 00:15, John Pierce wrote:

Hello!

I have just purchased a new msi mobo with and Athlon 64 together with a SATA II harddrive, I plan on installing the OpenSuSE 10.1 X86_64 on the sata drive and was curious if there is anything specific I need to know before I commence.

Also, is it possible to have the sata drive as the primary boot device along with an EIDE drive on one of the ide interfaces.

Thanks

John

Hi John That's very similar to the setup I've been running for the last week or so. I've got the SATA as the /root with an IDE drive transferred from the old PC with my /home directories. I did have problems getting it to boot initially, since the BIOS saw the IDE hard disk as the primary master, the IDE DVD writer as the primary slave and the SATA as just 'SATA 1'. The Asus BIOS on this MB allowed me to change the order of the drives from the IDE being 'drive 1' to drive 2, putting the SATA as drive 1, thereby allowing the SATA to be booted to GRUB I've got some funnies with other things like the ethernet card not wanting to work after being in Windows XP when I don't do a full power down of the system, but they seem to be a quirk of the NVidia chipset or more specifically the forcedeth driver, so considering I only boot windows once a month or less I'm not too worried. HTH Cheers Pete