Re: Booting from a PCI SATA card

From: mfigley <michaelfigley@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed Dec 20 2006 - 23:06:54 AKST

Damien Hull wrote:
> 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.

2 things i would try:

1) From bios setup see if you can enable something such as
    "boot offboard cards first" or enable booting from "SCSI"
    first.

2) Boot a live distro, and look at dmesg or /var/log/messages
    to see if your SATA get detected and if so, which driver
    gets assigned. I think latest Vector and Puppy releases and others
    have some SATA support builtin.

%cheers%

mike

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