 | System
 | RedHat 6.1 with custom 2.2.12-20 smp kernel |
| IBM Intellistation Z-Pro 6899 |
| Dual Pentium Pro 200MHz |
| 64MB RAM |
| 4.5GB SCSI HD |
| 3 GB EIDE HD |
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| Why?
| I wanted to test booting from the SCSI HD with EIDE drive(s) installed
before attempting the addition of dual EIDE drives for RAID storage. |
| I didn't want to have to reinstall Linux. This system has been
very stable -- if it works, don't fix it :) |
| The EIDE drive to be added was formatted with NTFS and there was data
which I wanted to recover. While I could have just booted from
this drive to recover the data, I thought I would try out the NTFS
driver I found instead. |
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| System Requirements
| LILO must be installed. |
| BIOS must support booting from the SCSI drive even if IDE drivers are
present. |
|
| Getting the system to boot from the SCSI drive and see the EIDE drive.
| First thing to do is create a boot disk if you don't already have
one. Make sure it works!
 | Put a floppy in the drive. |
| fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 |
| /sbin/mkfs.minix /dev/fd0 1440 |
| /bin/mount /dev/fd0 /mnt |
| cd /mnt |
| mkdir etc dev boot |
| cp -a /boot/vmlinuz /boot/initrd /boot/*.b boot/ |
| cp -a /dev/fd* /dev/null /dev/zero /dev/hd[abcd]* /dev/sd[abcd]*
dev/ |
| Create /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
# LILO configuration file |
initrd=/boot/initrd |
boot=/dev/fd0 |
vga=normal |
read-only |
prompt |
timeout=100 |
image = /boot/vmlinuz |
root =
/dev/sda1 #Whatever the current root is! |
label = linux |
|
| lilo -r /mnt |
| cd /; umount /mnt |
| Test the boot floppy by rebooting! |
|
| Edit lilo.conf
| Add the following up towards the beginning
| disk = /dev/sda |
| bios=0x80 |
| disk = /dev/hda |
| bios=0x82 |
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|
| Add the EIDE drive
| Shutdown the system. |
| Install the EIDE drive. I added mine to the secondary EIDE
controller. |
| Reboot the system and go into the BIOS settings. |
| Change the boot order so that it will boot Hard Drive 1. |
| Reboot the system. |
|
| Upon the first start up, the system will probably ask you what to do
with the new hardware. Let it configure it. |
| RedHat includes /usr/bin/idetool which will show you the parameters
for the new IDE drive. However, it will not show you what device
the drive is. |
| RedHat also includes /usr/bin/kcminfo which will show the
device. Look under the Partitions tab. |
|
| Adding NTFS support
| Download ntfs driver from http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~loewis/ntfs/ntfs-990831.tgz |
| Extract the source somewhere. |
| Change into the source directory. |
| Make and install the driver (see the INSTALL and README files.) |
| Create a mount point
| mkdir /nt |
|
| Try mounting the drive
| mount -t ntfs -oumask=0 /dev/hdc1 /nt |
| Or make mount |
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