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thomasvk
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Hi,
I got a new hard disk and I would like to try to install Gentoo on it. The general idea is:
40GB IDE, primary master
160GB IDE, secondary master
200GB SATA #1
200GB SATA #2
The SATA ones are on a SATA PCI card. The card is supported by the kernel because I tried it before.
Sata #2 is new and I would like to make a 20GB partition on the beginning (partition magic will do) to install Gentoo.
My questions:
Would this work? Would Gentoo want to boot from a sata drive and would grub want to load?
How would I configure grub?
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My questions:
Would this work? Would Gentoo want to boot from a sata drive and would grub want to load?
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How would I configure grub?
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You wouldn't need to do anything special to configure grub. Install it as if it were on any other drives just make sure you get the right drive name in your grub.conf (e.g. root (hd0,0) or whatever) (I'm assuming you are setting this up so you use the BIOS to select the boot device and don't want grub to always boot..
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thomasvk
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My question was more if Grub would understand to boot from a serial ata hard disk that's connect through a PCI card. But I kind of planned the layout now.
40GB HDD will be chopped up with 25GB for Windows and 15GB for Linux as /.
The second 200GB SATA hard disk will be chopped up with 50GB for Windows and 150GB for Gentoo as /home.
Now I have just one more wonder... wil I need a boot partition? And does this need to be the first partition on the first disk? Because then I'd need to move all the data with partition magic and I'd rather not do that because of bad experiences in the past.
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nixnut
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| Quote: | | My question was more if Grub would understand to boot from a serial ata hard disk that's connect through a PCI card. But I kind of planned the layout now. |
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| Quote: | Now I have just one more wonder... wil I need a boot partition? And does this need to be the first partition on the first disk? Because then I'd need to move all the data with partition magic and I'd rather not do that because of bad experiences in the past.
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A boot partition is not necessary, you can have a working system without one.
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