[NTLUG:Discuss] FC3 on Serial ATA Hard Drive?

[Jack Snodgrass]

I set up my FC3 x64 amd system with a SATA drive. 

Changeing the /boot stuff to boot of of the SATA drive 
was a PIA. I did grub-install a few times and finnally 
got it to boot when the SATA drive was the only drive
in the system. It was pretty easy to get it to boot when 
I had both an IDE ( master/primary ) drive in there with 
the boot sector and then booted off of that boot sector
and had linux use the SATA drive as /. 

One NOTE... the default FC3 kernel and initrd image does
not have the sata stuff in it. That was another hour figuring 
out why it would not boot off of the SATA Drive. I had to 
do a mkinitrd ( something like that ) and build my own 
custom initrd image that had the SATA stuff in it. Once I 
did this, it booted off of the SATA drive just fine. If you don't
do this, it can't see the SATA drive to boot from. 

jack 


On Apr 12, 2005 7:24 AM, John K. Taber <jktaber at charter.net> wrote:
> I'm pleased enough with FC3  functionality to want to install it on my
> new machine, a desktop Dell 4700, but I thought I'd better check with
> the gurus here first.
> 
> The Dell 4700 uses a serial ATA drive. Mine came with one, and I want to
> install a second for the Linux drive.
> 
> Is there any problem installing FC3 or running it from a serial ATA
> drive?
> 
> I would use a Maxtor 80 Gbyte model that matches the current drive.
> 
> John
> 
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