On 30 January 2011 19:44, Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mathias BurÃn put forth on 1/30/2011 6:12 AM: > >> Thanks to mdadm, and /dev/disks/by-label/ I should be fine with just >> swapping the SATA cables around actually, without having to change any >> configs. I'll try that later on and let you know if it affects >> performance anything. Good catch! > > Be sure to change the mobo and PCIe card BIOS boot order after moving the SSD > cable to the PCIe card or the machine won't boot. ÂAlso, before swapping cables, > make sure you have the PCIe card chipset driver built into your kernel or > properly built into your initrd image. ÂIf not you still won't boot. > > -- > Stan > I forgot to mention it, but I already swapped the cables. I had to change a few things (reinstall GRUB, change menu.lst) but otherwise I was OK. Strange thing is that my mainboard doesn't seem to want to boot off a drive that's connected to the Highpoint controller. Just sits there. However, using GRUB from a USB stick enables me to just do root (hd2,0), then chainload + and load the GRUB of the SSD. Not elegant, but it works (for now). Will investigate more later... // Mathias -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
