On Tue, 2005-12-04 at 16:34 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:06 -0600, Guy Fraser wrote:
> > Add any kind of drive when you are booting from SATA and you
> > no longer have a bootable machine.
>
> This is due to a failure to set the boot order correctly in your BIOS,
> or you have a BIOS that doesn't allow you to do this. We see this
> scenario quite often where I work, adding in drives or reordering them.
> Just setting the boot order correctly lets grub work nicely. Of course,
> having hardware that puts SATA out on it's own chipset and not
> 'emulated' as an IDE device helps a lot.
Read the archives.
I tried every possible thing.
Most new cards are completely auto detect, you can't change
anything in BIOS.
Maybe the reason the developers can't find any problems is
they are not adding any additional controller cards.
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My system had:
Before {working}:
Motherboard - 2 x PATA 66 - CD Burner,DVD-ROM
- 2 x SATA RAID 150 - 200GBx1 SATA Drives
PCI Cards - 2 x PATA 133 - ATA133 Drives 160GBx2,120GB,80GB
- 2 x SATA 150 - 200GBx2 SATA Drives
After {not working}:
Motherboard - 2 x PATA 66 - CD Burner,DVD-ROM
- 2 x SATA RAID 150 - 200GBx2 SATA Drives
PCI Cards - 2 x PATA 133 - ATA133 Drives 160GBx2,120GB,80GB
- 2 x SATA 150 - 200GBx2 SATA Drives
The only things that can be changed in BIOS are :
Logical drive allocation of onboard SATA RAID.
Drive settings of onboard PATA Drives.
Boot order : Floppy/CD/HD/SATA/(SCSI/Addon Controller) {Approximately}
I had it configured to boot from : SCSI/CD
The order the devices are detected :
1) Onboard PATA
2) Ext SATA
3) Ext ATA133
4) Onboard SATA Raid
Now {working}:
Motherboard - 2 x PATA 66 - CD Burner,DVD-ROM,ATA133 80GB
- 2 x SATA RAID 150 - 200GBx1 SATA Drives
PCI Cards - 2 x PATA 133 - ATA133 Drives 160GBx2,120GB
- 2 x SATA 150 - 200GBx2 SATA Drives
Configured to boot from: HD/CD
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All the exact particulars are in the archives somewhere.