Booting from a PCI SATA card

From: Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net>
Date: Wed Dec 20 2006 - 17:01:40 AKST

I'm trying to boot from a PCI SATA card and it's not working. Here's
what happens.

   1. Grub comes up
   2. It runs through a few lines until it gets to "boot"
   3. The system reboots

I did a quick Google search and found a website that says you can't boot
from a PCI SATA card. It has something to do with the BIOS not seeing
the card/drives. The BIOS is unable to pass the information to linux/grub.

Can someone tell me if this is true? I thought about getting a couple of
IDE drives to boot from but I don't want to spend any money if I don't
have to.

I'll be running a few tests tonight. If I find out anything new I'll
post it on the list.
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