[ale] a disk is just a disk?

[Jerry Yu]

Any pointer to troubleshoot these peculiar delays? Everything seems normal
once I get to the boot menu.

The delays are rather consistent as below. One thing I suspect is the
potentially wrong cable grade/type for the new EIDE disk.

   - ~1m for disks probe by BIOS
   - ~1m before transitions from the POST screen to a blank screen
   - ~1m before before  'GRUB loading stage1.5' appears on the blank screen
   - ~1m before 'GRUB loading' appears
   - ~1m before showing GRUB boot menu


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  u r correct, Geoffrey. a disk is just a disk. The box booted up to Linux
> just fine, with the EIDE disk replaced in-place.
>
> It was peculiar that the grub loading is rather slow. 15s before it says
> 'GRUB loading stage 1.5', then another 15s bfore it  says 'loading GRUB'.
> Once I got to  the GRUB boot menu, everything seems to normal speed.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Jerry Yu wrote:
>> > I used gparted live cd to copy/resize a small EIDE disk (60G) to a
>> bigger
>> > EIDE disk (120G).  The new disk was in an external USB enclosure.
>> > gparted saw 60G as hda and 120G as sdb. It successfully copied & grew
>> all
>> > five partitions (4 linux ext3 & 1 fat32).
>> >
>> > Now I am ready to take this EIDE disk out of the USB enclosure & to
>> replace
>> > the smaller EIDE disk. / & MBR  & GRUB is on a separate SATA disk (sda)
>> >
>> > would the net changes on the new disk differ, somehow,  when parted did
>> all
>> > its magic thinking it handled a SCSI disk instead of a EIDE disk?
>>
>> I don't think gparted has anything to do with that.  Once you put the
>> drive in the computer, boot it with gparted and the partitions will no
>> longer show up as scsi.
>>
>> I would expect that swaping eide for eide will permit you to simply boot
>> afterwards, as long as you're correct in that mbr/grub is on a separate
>> drive.
>>
>> --
>> Until later, Geoffrey
>>
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