Re: Troubles Adding SATA Drive

On 2006-05-30, Don Raboud <don.raboud@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
plew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On 2006-05-30, Don Raboud <don.raboud@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
J. Hinkey wrote:

I'm running Suse 9.2 on a Tyan Thunder K8W S2885ANRF board, 4 GB Ram, 64
bit SUSE with 2 SATA drives alread installed.

When I plug in a third (new) drive to the SATA connectors and re-boot,
there is a kernel panic - it cannot find my main drive that has the OS
on it.

If I unplug the drive from the SATA connector on the board everything is
fine.

Any ideas of what to do?

Thanks -

JH


I've run across this as well. The labeling of the SATA drives changes
when
a new one is added. So what used to be sda (for example) becomes sdb and
the bootloader is looking for you kernel on sda.

What I did was simply change the connectors that each SATA drive was
attached to (with all three drives connected) so that the drives that
were
previously labeled sda and sdb showed up as those again. Then the new
drive will be sdc (probably) and I think you will have what you intended.

I admit this is not an elegant solution, but it only has to be done once
(until you add or remove another drive) and really doesn't take that much
time.

Another option I think should work (and is much more flexible) would be
to boot from a rescue CD or a live CD and see how the drives are labeled.
Then in GRUB (I assume you are using GRUB) you can change which hard
drive (in GRUB notation) gets mapped to which drive (in linux notation).
I don't recall the details of how to do this, but as I recall the
administration manual covers this in reasonable detail.

Hope this helps.


What happens if I add an ide drive (pata?) to a windows system that has a
SATA already installed? Would the winxp media-center boot using the SATA
or
PATA? The ide drive will have winxp & suse 10.0 already installed &
running on my current system.

I don't know in general which would take preference in terms of booting, the
IDE or the SATA. You might want to check your BIOS for a setting
indicating which hard drive is to be used for booting. If this is set to
your SATA drive there should not be any difference in booting from what you
have currently.


Hope this helps

Thanks. Will also check the hp bios for the drive option before purchase.
.

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