On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:26 PM, David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having had a fresh attack at my broken system tonight I discovered the > original PATA drive boots if I disable the SATA drives in BIOS. What > appears to be happening is that no matter the BIOS is told to boot > "IDE" (and doesn't have a SATA boot option) once the SATA drives have > enough formatting to look bootable to BIOS, the BIOS boots the ad4 > SATA drive rather than the ad0 PIDE drive. :-( > > I was trying to geom stripe ad4 and ad6, not ad4s1 and ad6s1. Made my > gstripe with ad4s1 and ad6s1 so that the boot MBR stays untouched. > > System is now booting ad0 by starting at ad4 and hopping to ad6, then > to ad0.
Yes, you've discovered a "feature" of the 400SC (I have 3). If you have PATA and SATA disks installed: SATA disabled in BIOS -> PATA boots SATA enabled in BIOS -> SATA boots, and stops if it can't (PATA never attempted) The best work around is to install a boot loader on your SATA HD to point to the PATA HD. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
