Re: [Sheflug] Promise ATA-100 controller - sorted (nearly)

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

>  OK, after a massive set of posts...the solution was one that taxed me
> to my limits :-)
>
>  Yup, you might have guessed...yank out all the cards, and stuff them in
> a different way around, rebooting after inserting each card one by one.

I love motherboards ;)

>  If so where/how do I mount /dev/hde1 - surely with tomsrtbt being
> readonly (IIRC) I can't just make a new mount point can I?
>
>  I'd rather not just start playing with my root drive...I'm in no mood
> to kill it :-)

Just do it ;) Swap them over, boot to linux (linux root=/dev/hde1), and
it'll (probably) bring you to single user mode when it realises it can't
mount swap.. hehe..

Otherwise, boot to Tom's, mount /, change fstab, unmount, swap, reboot,
voila...

Cheers,

Alex.

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