[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Boot from SATA drive

[Jack Snodgrass]

I've got the system to boot off of the /dev/sda ( SATA ) partitiions. 
I had to do: 
mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10-1.766_FC3.custom 2.6.10-1.766_FC3
to make a 'custom' initrd image that includes the sata module. 
I mangaged to unpage the default initrd image and it didn't 
contain the sata driver. I change my grub.conf file to use my 
.custom initrd and I can boot using my SATA partitions. 

Currently, I'm booting off of the /dev/hda MBR. I've tried 
removing /dev/hda from the system and botting off of the 
MBR record on the SATA drive, but it's not wroking. Got 
to figure out what's wrong with my grub.conf file. 

I haven't actually 'installed' grub on /dev/sda, so I think
that's the issue.....

jack 

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:53:35 -0600, Jack Snodgrass <mylinuxguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Fedora FC3 system that I intalled on to a standard, ide, /dev/hda
> drive. I've just installed a 160GB SATA drive and rsync'd my partions
> to the /dev/sda, SATA drive.
> 
> So far so good....  file wise.... now.... what do I need to do to get the
> system to boot off of the sata drive? I think that I can
> leave in the /dev/hda drive and boot off of it's MBR... but what
> if I want to remove the drive alltogether and just boot off of
> the SATA drive?
> 
> I changed the /etc/fstab file on the /dev/sda drive to point to the
> /dev/sda partions ( /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, /dev/sda5, etc ) and
> added a grup.conf entry that had root=/dev/sda3 instead of
> root=/dev/hda3. I got a kernel panic  when I tried to boot using
> root=/dev/sda3.
> 
> If anyone has any info, let me know.
> 
> Jack
>