[Gllug] Linux on a box with mixed discs

[Ian Northeast]

Chris Bell wrote:
> On Mon 17 May, Christian Smith wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 14 May 2004, Chris Bell wrote:
>>
> 
> 
>>Just curious. Why not install the base system onto the SCSI disk?
>>
>>That will probably give you better performance, as the most commonly used
>>components (the base system) will have lower latencies.
>>
>>IDE is great for cheap mass storage, but a base system on SCSI will make a
>>noticeable difference in performance.
>>
>>Also, that way, you initrd will be correctly generated as well.
>>
>>Christian
>>
> 
>    I did try that at one stage, but it also failed. 

You will need something like this in /etc/lilo.conf:

disk=/dev/sda
         bios=0x80

and IIRC the Debian (Woody) installer didn't get it right. I may be 
misrembering here, I've installed Debian both ways round onto mixed 
IDE/SCSI machines and I'm sure it got one of them wrong. I think it was 
this one, which boots off the SCSI.

Regards, Ian

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