Re: ATA66 does not boot.

[Gregory Gee]

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> 
> 
> Looks like the extra HPT366 controller is an add-on to the
> motherboard, and the SMP part is hinting that you maybe have an
> ABit BP6?
> 
  You're right.  I do have a BP6. 

> I have one of these, and your problem is that, with no other
> drives installed (or even with drives installed on an ABit BP6
> with the BIOS order set to "EXT" before "C", and "EXT" set to
> "UDMA66"), you need to set the disk part of your "root" device
> statement in your GRUB menu file to:
> 
>    hd0
> 
  Actually, I still have C before EXT.  If I plug a drive into
the primary ATA33 cable, this would appear in Linux as hda with
the ATA66 drive as hde.  What do these map to in grub?

> You were assuming that BIOS device numbers follow the Linux
> device naming scheme, and that is not the case.  The BIOS
> numbers them starting from the first one in boot order.
> 
So your saying that hd0, hd1, ... has nothing to do with where in the IDE
chain you are.  If I have drives on hda and hde, they will
be numbers hd0 and hd1 instead of hd0 and hd4?  

  Is there a grub command line utility to scan for available drives and
list what the hdX they are on?

> --
>     Erich Stefan Boleyn     <address@hidden>     http://www.uruk.org/
> "Reality is truly stranger than fiction; Probably why fiction is so popular"

Thanks,
Greg