[Gllug] Hardware IDE RAID

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Sun Jan 18 01:46:46 UTC 2004


On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:24:32PM +0000, Simon wrote:
>   The only hiccough I have found is that
> >the PCI IDE controllers have a tendency to swap drives around.  So when 
> >you install a kernel it will install it to what it sees as /dev/hda yet 
> >/dev/hda is actually /dev/hdg during boot :-)  It is really very good 
> >method to learn the grub command prompt :-)
> 
> Yes, I ought to have a much better understanding of the boot process. 
> However, crossing my fingers has got me this far!

Grub is well worth the effort.  It's much smarter and more flexible than
Lilo and very much more helpful if things go wrong.

-- 
Bruce

Those who cast the votes decide nothing.  Those who count the
votes decide everything. -- Joseph Stalin
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