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On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Seth Gordon<sethg-Dp9fwfP21SfQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote: > > Nooo! ?If I plugged the new drive into the motherboard's ATA0 socket and > the old one into ATA2 (ATA1 being the DVD-ROM drive), then it would boot > from the new drive and the old drive was completely invisible to the > system; it didn't show up in the dmesg output or even the BIOS screen. > If I plugged the old drive into ATA0 and the new drive into ATA2, then > the new drive was invisible to the BIOS, and the old drive... booted far > enough to say "I can't mount the root partition, here's a busybox > prompt, good luck." > Unplug the CD and plug one of the drives in there? Perhaps the ATA2 isn't really there. MEG
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