SATA Boot

[Chong Yu Meng]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 09:25 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> I had no problems getting Slackware to install & boot on a SATA drive when
> using the scsi/sata kernel.
> 
> On Mon, 8 May 2006, Ben Duncan wrote:
> 
> > Should be treated as a SCSI device. One of the SCSI kernels should work.
> > Best I recall, Slack 10.2 had a SCSI SATA kernel you could select.
> >
> > Shawn Tayler wrote:
> > > Hi Guys,
> > >
> > > How tough is it to get Slackware to boot off of a SATA HD?  I need to
> > > build a cheapy mailserver for a client and the small Dells are all SATA in
> > > the basic format.
> > >
> > > Suggestions?
> 

Hmm... that's odd. Are there problems booting with SATA disks? I'm going
to be adding another server in Hong Kong soon, with SATA disks and I
thought it should behave the same as ATA disks ... shouldn't it?