You missed the point.
I have 2 disks. One primary boot device /dev/sda and a secondary
IDE /dev/hda.
Fedora Core 1 and 2 both support my SATA disk, but the bootloader will
be installed on /dev/hda, with hda as primary boot device, if you have
an hda harddisk installed.
Regards
Bjorn Andersen
On tir, 2004-07-20 at 10:24 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> Since Fedora Core 1 and the support of SATA disks there haw been
a
> problem in detection of standard boot device.
> The Fedora installer dont detect what device the bios will boot on.
> Annaconda standard boot on /dev/hda if it is present, but the people
> that have a SATA disk as primary boot device, will have to switch the
> boot loader to that device. If not, the bootloader will not boot,
> because it is set on hda (the secondary harddisk).
Not so. FC2 installed out of the box (so to speak) without a hitch on
my SATA/Promise MB. Needless to say, its been booting just fine since
then. It is true that SATA support was missing in FC1, as it was first
available in the 2.6 kernel. SATA drivers use /dev/sd? for the disks,
of course.