From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4HDefU5029674 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 09:40:41 -0400 Received: from smtp.andrew.cmu.edu (smtp.andrew.cmu.edu [128.2.10.81]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4HDeZSV030582 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 09:40:35 -0400 Message-ID: <446B27E4.7040509@cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:40:52 -0400 From: George Nychis MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <446A36B8.1060707@cmu.edu> <20060516203917.GQ11191@w.ods.org> <446A418E.3070307@cmu.edu> <20060517034814.GA25818@w.ods.org> <446B2523.1040800@cmu.edu> <20060517133456.GD23933@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20060517133456.GD23933@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: need help booting from SATA in 2.4.32 Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Lennart Sorensen Cc: linux-lvm@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Willy Tarreau Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:29:07AM -0400, George Nychis wrote: >> Good suggestion on disabling IDE, it does not show up as SATA, it simply >> doesn't show up... after some googling, it seems as though no one has >> gotten it as SATA in 2.4: >> http://wip.powerblogs.com/posts/1124302626.shtml >> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=400521 >> >> Ok so, lets just assume we can't get SATA, and lets just try to get it >> to boot as /dev/hda ... so now i know nothing about LVM, can anyone >> provide me any insight on how to get this to boot with LVM? >> >> So in 2.6.9, it loads VolGroup00/LogVol00 from /dev/sda5 which shows up >> in fdisk as LVM. How can i get this to load from /dev/hda5 instead? > > You don't. SATA is using scsi style interface now, and with Alan Cox's > current work, IDE drives soon will too. It will all go through libata > and show up as scsi disks. > > It will be nice to have everything nice and consistent (except for the > few oddball raid cards that insist on being completely different) for > accessing disks. > > SATA is not IDE, so why expect it to show up as an old style IDE disk? Because it does...... on bootup the *same* exact drive in 2.4.32 shows up as /dev/hda It has the exact same volume information as my drive that shows up in 2.6.9 as /dev/sda