Andrew Gallatin writes:
>
> Shantonu Sen writes:
> >
> > Yup. You might try connecting a regular ATA drive to your on-board
> > ATA bus, since clearly the CD-ROM drive works.
> >
>
> I've torn open machine the P4 and ripped the disk out of it and am
> using the amd64 to install it. I'll be very interested to see
> if it boots when I put it back in the P4.
OK, the install on the amd64 worked fine. Since I really want it
in the P4, I'm trying to get it to boot there, but with no luck
so far.
On the amd64, the Darwin root disk is the primary slave (master is
DVD-ROM). From linux, the partition table looks like this:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 1912 15356124 a5 FreeBSD
/dev/hdb2 1913 3737 14659312+ a5 FreeBSD
/dev/hdb3 * 3738 5562 14659312+ af Unknown
When I move the disk back to the P4, it is still the primary slave
(master is another hard disk with Solaris, BSD, linux).
However, I can't seem to get it to boot via grub (I'm still Googling
on this), but at boot, I'm getting "HFS+ Partition Error"
I'm doing this via Grub:
grub> rootnoverify (hd1,2)
grub> chainloader +1
grub> makeactive
grub> boot
If I take grub out of the picture and use just boot the secondary
drive with the power disconnected from the first, it won't mount
root. The last thing I see is:
IOATAController device blocking bus
AppleServerworksATA: CSB5 UDMA-1000 (CMD 0x1f0 CTR 0x3f4 IRQ 14 8M 0xffa0)
Still waiting for root device
Still waiting for root device
Still waiting for root device
Still waiting for root device
I've tried passing rd=disk0s3, as well as disabling ACPI, using the -F
and -f flags, etc.
I think the solution is to get it booting via grub so that its
still a primary slave, just like it was installed to be.
Is there something I'm missing?
Drew
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