Install Fedora on a new SATA drive from a running release on ide

[Michael E. Webster]

A (possibly) easier method is to get one of those SATA -> ATA adapters
and plug your SATA drive into the IDE bus.  Make the mods, then just
shut down the box and plug SATA drive back into the SATA bus.

Mike.



On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 10:22, Mike Insch (as00000042) wrote:
> In the murky past yavorsky gaetan did say:
> > I have a SATA Raid ctl Megaraid 150-4 from LSI Logic.
> > I can't install Fedora diretcly on the raid1 partition since I have to
> > patch the scsi/sd.c module.
> > So, I can install FC1 on an ide drive, make the patch, mount the raid1
> > array, ..., and after ?
> > How do I copy the "ide release" to the new raid1 array ?
> > Hope I've been clear, and sorry for my english.
> > Thanks.
> > Gy
> 
> I recently wrote a howto for something similar - Installing FC1 to the
> SATA/RAID Controller on a VIA KT600/VT8237 Chipset.  See:
>     http://fedoranews.org/contributors/mike_insch/sata/
> 
> You may be able to adapt this to do something similar on your chipset, by
> making a driver disk which is used during the installation.  You may need
> to do some clever jiggery-pokery to get things working, but it should be
> possible to do things at install time.
> 
> Since you need to override the stock sd.o module, things may be a bit more
> complex for you, but by using the terminal (CTRL+ALT+F2) during setup, you
> may be able to remove the default sd.o from the running kernal, and
> manually insmod your patched version.
> --
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