Re: Booting from a PCI SATA card

Quoting Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net>:

> 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.

You might need to make an initrd so the drivers for the card are available.

Jon
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Received on Wed Dec 20 17:07:09 2006