Re: [IPCop-devel] sata and usb stick

[Gilles E. <g....@fr...>]

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From: "Michael Rasmussen" <mi...@mi...>
To: "ipcop list" <ipc...@li...>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 8:16 PM
Subject: [IPCop-devel] Maybe a bug


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> Hi all,
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> On my work I have installed IPCop on a HP Proliant DL140 G3
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(http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/en/WF05a/15351-15351-3328412-241644-33
28421-1842838.html)
> This server is supplied with SATA disks in which case disk 1 is
> accessed through /dev/sda[1..n]. So far so good. The problem arises
> under installation when you want to use configuration from a previous
> server stored on a USB-stick. The installer fails to mount the stick
> since it tries to mount it through /dev/sda1 which in the current
> situation is taken by the first SATA disk. This also affects IPCop
> after installation since it still expects connection through /dev/sda1.
>
> Any feasible work-around?
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I don't understand when the problem exactly happen.
Installer should be capable to detect an usb stick used to boot as sda or
sdb.

On installation, usb stick should appear as sda and harddisk as sdb because
scsi harddisk detection is after usb mass-storage has been set up. The
installer should compute the correct letter for the harddisk and instruct
grub to boot from sda as the harddisk should be set up first in the initrd.

How did you boot the machine (cdrom, PXE, usb stick,  std floppy or usb
floppy)?
Then how did you try to install (http or cdrom/usb key)?

Did you have a cdrom installed? Under wich device is it detected?
Did you have an option on bios like IDE emulation fro SATA devices?

Gilles

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