Ithink I now your problem: It looks like you activated "Boot off-board chipsets first support" in the ATA and ide block devices.... mfg Albert Dengg On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:51:26 +0200 Frank Steiner <fsteiner@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I have an Asus A7V266-E with an onboard Promise raid controller. > We are booting diskless with tftp. My problem is, that Linux > detects the promise controller before the normal IDE controller, > so that IDE0 and IDE1 are taken by the promise controller, and > the normal IDE controller gets IDE2 and IDE3. > This is very bad because the diskless clients share config files > and are expected to have their local harddisk at ide0. > > Of course I could just plug the hard disk into the promise > controller or compile a kernel without support for the promise > controller. > But I'm curious if there is a way to force linux to give ide0 and ide1 > to the normal IDE controller? > Disabling the "load ata raid bios" in the bios didn't help. > > Does anyone know a way to put the normal IDE controller before > the raid controller? > > cu, > Frank > -- > Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner mailto:fst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Lehrstuhl f. Programmiersprachen mailto:fsteiner@xxxxxx > CAU Kiel, Olshausenstraße 40 Phone: +49 431 880-7265, Fax: -7613 > D-24098 Kiel, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~fst/ > > ________________________________________________________________ > Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr! > Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list >
