update:
I was able to copy my old hda1 and hda3 to sda1 and sda3 of my sata drive.
I then do chroot to /mnt/sda1
edit lilo.conf to point to sda and sda1 instead of hda and hda1
edit fstab to reference sda1 and sda3
then execute
lilo -v
Code:
lilo -v
LILO version 22.7.3, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2006 John Coffman
Released 11-Aug-2006, and compiled at 06:46:38 on Jan 20 2007
Debian GNU/Linux
Reading boot sector from /dev/sda
Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk
Using MENU secondary loader
Calling map_insert_data
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-chw-13
Mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd.gz
Added Linux *
Skipping /vmlinuz.old
Boot image: /boot/bzImage.2.4.20.poweroff
Added Poweroff
Writing boot sector.
/boot/boot.0800 exists - no boot sector backup copy made.
One warning was issued.
When I reboot without hda (my PATA drive), it says can't find boot device even though my SATA card bios just reported it present.
I guess it doesn't see the mbr of my SATA drive or lilo didn't get installed to it.
So I'm still stuck. I seem to only be able to use this drive for the myth partition.
In case anyone ever reads this here is some information that I get when booting from hda1 R5E50 while using my sda3 as my myth partition.
Code:
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: Loading iSCSI transport class v1.1-646.<7>libata version 2.00 l oaded.
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: sata_sil24 0000:01:08.0: version 0.3
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xE1090000 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 17
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xE1092000 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 17
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: ata3: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xE1094000 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 17
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xE1096000 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 17
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: scsi0 : sata_sil24
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: scsi1 : sata_sil24
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: scsi2 : sata_sil24
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: scsi3 : sata_sil24
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: ata4.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 976773168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (dep th 31/32)
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: ata4.00: ata4: dev 0 multi count 16
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jun 6 23:46:17 mythtvmaster kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
My guess was that either knoppix the R5F1 install cd has a bug in the kernel or is missing an important kernel module.
But I think it is probably a bug that I have seen mentioned at various places in this kernel that causes errors when the ata drive, the ata cd, and the sata drives are all working at the same time. I haven't had problems at all using the sata drive as my /myth partition and hda1 as my boot drive and root. However, I have unplugged the IDE2 with my cd drive and other hard drive so maybe these errors aren't noticable
If I could get lilo to install on my sata drive i would be happy.
Anyway since the cd is required to install the messages above and the system freeze that it causes would prevent a tier 1 install for this hardware.