[Gllug] Re: Boot from SATA, not IDE?

[Nix]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Jon Dye yowled:
> Could you not just put a boot loader on the IDE drive that just passes
> off booting to the SATA drive?  I'm sure I've seen this feature in
> either lilo or grub somewhere.

LILO can certainly do it. On one of my machines, which decided (for
reasons known only to the crack monkeys who write BIOSes) to forbid
booting from SCSI the instant I added an IDE drive:

boot = /dev/hda
[...]
image = /boot/vmlinuz.old
  root = /dev/sda1
[...]

i.e., it's no effort at all, as long as your BIOS can see the
drive on which the map file, stage 2 loader and kernel reside.
(If it can't, you've got a problem booting no matter what.)

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