SATA boot whish for FC3

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Wed Jul 21 02:51:58 UTC 2004


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On Tuesday 20 July 2004 02:06, Bjorn Andersen wrote:
> Since Fedora Core 1 and the support of SATA disks there haw been a
> problem in detection of standard boot device.
> The Fedora installer dont detect what device the bios will boot on.
> Annaconda standard boot on /dev/hda if it is present, but the people
> that have a SATA disk as primary boot device, will have to switch the
> boot loader to that device. If not, the bootloader will not boot,
> because it is set on hda (the secondary harddisk).
>
> It would be a god idea to have Anaconda detect what primary bootdevice
> from the bios. (like SuSE)

What exactly are you talking about?  Grub will be installed to the first 
harddrive detected.  Be it a SCSI drive (/dev/sda or /dev/sdb or...) or a 
SATA disk (still could be /dev/sda or could be /dev/hdd or even /dev/hda) 
or a PATA disk (/dev/hda or /dev/hdb or...).  All the different configs 
I've thrown at Fedora, anaconda will automagically install the boot loader 
on the correct drive.  Perhaps you're doing something silly during the 
install to break this?

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