Hi, Samuel Flory wrote: > > Frank Steiner 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. > > > > > > Wouldn't it be easier to convert to using disk labels. (Assuming you > are running a distro that supports them.) > e2label /dev/hda2 foo > change LABEL=foo for the normal device > > or handle it in your rc.sysinit scripts: > hard =`grep -e hd. -e sda /proc/partitions | sed -e s/[0-9]//g -e "s/ > //g" -e s/-// |sort |uniq |head` > mount /dev/$hard\1 /foo that would work, but it is complicated as the client is just one among many other diskless clients, and making special adjustments for one client is difficult :-( > Boot the system with ide=reverse. This will reverse the order that > controllers are seen. That works! Thanks! I will use this solution for now and try the others one after another. Thanks for the patch, I will check this out also! Best regards, Frank ________________________________________________________________ Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr! Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13
