Hein-Pieter van Braam wrote:
I'll try and make a bootable USB stick with my patched 2.6.23.9 and see
what the results are then.
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How are you booting without the USB stick?
Are you booting from the Highpoint card drives?
What bootloader ?
Thanks
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Right now I just boot using GRUB really, perhaps the BIOS hides the 9th
sector if it's in some form of RAID mode? I haven't had any trouble
using GRUB...
I haven't done anything special apart from putting the drives in JBOD
mode, each disk is set to JBOD, it's set per disk, so not one large JBOD
over 8 disks, but 8 separate JBOD volumes.
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Man, what a quirky BIOS!
Okay, so if I connect a drive and don't do anything in the Highpoint BIOS setup,
it then corrupts the drive by overwriting the 9th sector on every reboot.
But.. if I connect a drive and go into the Highpoint BIOS setup,
and "initialize" the drive there, and then set it all as a "JBOD volume",
it then leaves the drive content untouched on subsequent reboots.
Screwy to the max.
So, I might be able to boot from it by cloning the disk *after* setting
it to "JBOD" in the BIOS. That will take a (longish) while to do.
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