hd's on IDE 0,0 and 0,1 listed as hdi and hdj

blacksheep · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 25

Ok am installing Gentoo to be used as a fileserver and am following the gentoo-luks wiki however on initial boot (from live cd) the drive on the first ide channel is being labeled as /dev/hdi and the one being labled /dev/hda is a drive that my bios won't let me choose to boot from. I can install and get most things working on hdi but its causing a few quirks as when the system is installed and rebooted hdi then becomes hda. So my question (and its probably something simple I'm missing) is how on initial boot from the install cd can I get hdi to be hda?

Thanks for any help.

Suer7reus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 106

Holy cow, hehe. Off the top of my head, you could either learn a lot about udev (the Right way), or you might simply be able to move, delete, rename, copy, and/or symlink your device node files in /dev/ until the one that was hda is gone and the one that was hdi is called hda (same with the partitions). I think that ought to work, since the nodes only mean as much as their major and minor device numbers anyway...

davascript · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 618 Location: Pennsylvania

What kind of hard drive controller is in the system? I have had similar issues when I installed 2 scsi disks showed as hd1 and hd2 and the ide disk was hd0 in grub but when I tried to boot it made the scsi disks hd0 and hd1 and the ide disk hd2.

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject:

Hi.

Do you have some kind of card-reader in your system? Do you have any PCI/ISA IDE controllers?
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troymc · Guru Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 553

Try passing ide=reverse on the boot line for the CD. This will reverse the detection order of your IDE interfaces.

troymc

blacksheep · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 25

wow loads of replies - thanks guys

ok yes at the moment there is a maxtor pci ide controller card, but it is not being used for any of the 5 hds in atm. The motherboard is a gigabyte k8vt800 pro with 4 ide channels on it comprising of 2 normal ide channels and 2 on a GigaRAID IT8212F so at the moment I have the 2 hds on ide 1 cdrom on ide 2 and 3hds on the gigaraid ide channels.

Even if I boot with only the disks on the first ide channel they are labled hdi and hdj

davascript · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 618 Location: Pennsylvania

try disabling the raid controller ide channels on your motherboad and see what happens.
I would also try the fix that troymc had

blacksheep · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 25

ok guys will give those a go and see how it goes - cheers for all the replies so far

blacksheep · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 25

ok so finally managed to get it to boot from the hd that was labeled hda (was called scsi in bios?!?) anyway on reboot it call the drives on channel one hda/hdb and so messes up. On dissabling the gigaraid controler it sorts everything out - many thanks to all who replied.