Peter Stuge wrote:
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 11:32:25PM -0400, Tom Sylla wrote:
Peter Stuge wrote:
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:22:02PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> FILO trunk can't boot from hdb, with or without my patch. Has > anyone ever been able to boot a kernel from a slave device?
To clarify, there are still 2 devices attached, device 0 and device 1, but you want to boot from device 1?
I only had 1 device, the slave.
Should still work, no? If not, what kind of tricks does the BIOS do to see the device?
More magic :)
Take a look at reg_config and reg_reset in atadrvr.
From the comments for reg_config:
"// This process is not documented by any of the ATA standards."
Try that mechanism out, and see if it works better. I didn't check, but the Linux kernel driver may do something similar.