Re: Booting from a PCI SATA card ( it works! )

From: Fielder George Dowding <fgdowding@iceworm-enterprises.net>
Date: Thu Dec 21 2006 - 22:50:31 AKST

Damien Hull wrote:
> I did a few tests on my new server. Looks like everything is working. I
> did run into a small problem. I added a second PCI SATA card and the
> system wouldn't boot. Take the card out and the system boots. I wanted
> to add a second PCI SATA card so I could add a hot spare. I guess that's
> not going to happen. AT some point I may need to get that 4 port 3ware
> RAID card.
>
> Time to rsync my data over. :-)
>
>
> Damien Hull wrote:
>> Leif Sawyer wrote:
>>
Snip-a-roony! WooWoo!! ChugChug!! DingDing!!

Damien you might try changing PCI slots. The slots do have an order
although in any case where one is not concerned with order (which boots
first, which is eth0, and which is eth1, etc.) most of us tend to think
PCI slots are all created equal.

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