[arch-general] archlinux hardware question
Has anyone managed to get archlinux up and running on either a sled drive or a full-sized usb drive yet. Another Linux system I have couldn't even detect the disk drive was in the machine and I gave it my best hard drive too. Slackware has no problem with the drive, but Debian squeeze or an earlier edition of lenny squeeze had problems too.
Has anyone managed to get archlinux up and running on either a sled drive or a full-sized usb drive yet. Another Linux system I have couldn't even detect the disk drive was in the machine and I gave it my best hard drive too. Slackware has no problem with the drive, but Debian squeeze or an earlier edition of lenny squeeze had problems too.
What's a "sled drive"? Anyway, when the LCD broke on my main laptop, and I sent it for a repair, I took out the hard drive, put it in an external USB box and hooked it up on an Asus EEEpc 701. Except that I had to update the initramfs to include the usb drivers (ehci_hcd, uhci_hcd, usb_storage, sd_mod) I don't remember doing anything else special. fstab was already configured to mount by uuid, grub2 too. -- дамјан
A sled drive puts an internal drive into a sled case. Then the user slides the sled case along tracks installed for that purpose into the computer and in order to use it must lock the drive with a key. You can put operating systems on different hard drives that way and if one gets compromised pull it out and replace disk to keep running. On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Damjan wrote:
Has anyone managed to get archlinux up and running on either a sled drive or a full-sized usb drive yet. Another Linux system I have couldn't even detect the disk drive was in the machine and I gave it my best hard drive too. Slackware has no problem with the drive, but Debian squeeze or an earlier edition of lenny squeeze had problems too.
What's a "sled drive"?
Anyway, when the LCD broke on my main laptop, and I sent it for a repair, I took out the hard drive, put it in an external USB box and hooked it up on an Asus EEEpc 701.
Except that I had to update the initramfs to include the usb drivers (ehci_hcd, uhci_hcd, usb_storage, sd_mod) I don't remember doing anything else special.
fstab was already configured to mount by uuid, grub2 too.
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On 11/28/2010 05:59 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
A sled drive puts an internal drive into a sled case. Then the user slides the sled case along tracks installed for that purpose into the computer and in order to use it must lock the drive with a key. You can put operating systems on different hard drives that way and if one gets compromised pull it out and replace disk to keep running.
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Damjan wrote:
Has anyone managed to get archlinux up and running on either a sled drive or a full-sized usb drive yet. Another Linux system I have couldn't even detect the disk drive was in the machine and I gave it my best hard drive too. Slackware has no problem with the drive, but Debian squeeze or an earlier edition of lenny squeeze had problems too.
What's a "sled drive"?
Anyway, when the LCD broke on my main laptop, and I sent it for a repair, I took out the hard drive, put it in an external USB box and hooked it up on an Asus EEEpc 701.
Except that I had to update the initramfs to include the usb drivers (ehci_hcd, uhci_hcd, usb_storage, sd_mod) I don't remember doing anything else special.
fstab was already configured to mount by uuid, grub2 too.
-- ??????
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It sounds as if you are describing a hot-swappable drive. Something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994054 If that is the case then the kernel should just have to support your SATA chipset. As with a USB drive you should just need to provide the needed usb kernel modules as Damjan stated in yoru initrd file. Edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and run mkinitcpio -p kernel26
On 29 November 2010 05:22, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> wrote:
Has anyone managed to get archlinux up and running on either a sled drive or a full-sized usb drive yet. Another Linux system I have couldn't even detect the disk drive was in the machine and I gave it my best hard drive too. Slackware has no problem with the drive, but Debian squeeze or an earlier edition of lenny squeeze had problems too.
Hi Jude I think you probably need to edit mkinitcpio.conf with the right hooks, like this: HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata sata scsi usb filesystems"
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