SATA Boot

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 9 May 2006, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> 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?

I'm not sure I understand your questions.

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