Jeff Garzik wrote:
Mark Lord wrote:
The BIOS on the Highpoint RR 2300 *corrupts* the GRUB image,
so GRUB won't boot for me there. I actually have to re-install
GRUB after each attempt so that the drive is usable again
with the onboard Intel (ahci) ports.
So one then wonders exactly what the Highpoint BIOS is overwriting,
RAID metadata, one would assume from the 'RR'...
I've no idea if the standard solution is applicable to HPT RR: going
through BIOS setup and turning off RAID completely, or if not possible,
putting it into JBOD mode.
..
It's an add-on PCIe board, with it's own onboard "RAID management" BIOS.
The onboard BIOS has the drive labelled as "Legacy", but it still seems
to insist upon writing it's meta data at every startup.
So to boot from it, we may need to find a way to keep our bootloader
away from those same sector(s).
Cheers
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