[ale] a disk is just a disk?

[Greg Freemyer]

Do you have any empty SATA ports that you could disable?

Greg

2008/6/26 Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com>:
> 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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