1-TB SATA drive as F9 root/boot drive

[Eric]

At 07:22 PM 9/23/2008, Scott Harvanek wrote:

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>When you say it won't boot do you mean it gets past grub and hangs? or
>does it not even get to grub?
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It gets to grub, then about half the time it completes the boot 
process.  The other half, it either hangs or panics.

It's not really important... the only reason I was going to use the 
SATA drive anyway is it was the only one I had on hand that was a 
reasonable size... but I then found a 120-GB IDE drive and used that.

The motherboard is a Tyan from back in the early days of on-board 
SATA controllers so I suppose there could be some bugs in there that 
ding up Linux's SATA driver.  I haven't tried just using it as a 
second (non-boot) drive on Linux; when I had all this trouble I just 
reformatted it with NTFS and stuck it in our Windoze server.