>All with the same problem. I disabled the onboard nvidia nforce 410/430 >raid bios in the bios in all cases. Now whether it actually does not look >for a signature, I do not know. I'm attempting to make this box into an >iSCSI target for my ESX environments. I can put W3K and SanMelody on there, >but it is not as interesting and I am attempting to help the Solaris >community.
>I am simply making the business case that over three major vendors boards >and the absolute latest (gigabyte), the effect was the same. Have you tried disabling the disks in the BIOS? Select the disk in the BIOS and set the type to "NONE". That will prevent the disks from being accessed by the BIOS. They will still be usable in Solaris. >The given fact is that PC vendors are not readily adopting EFI bios at this >time, the millions of PC's out there are vulnerable to this. And if x86 >Solaris is to be really viable, this community needs to be addressed. Now I >was at Sun 1/4 of my entire life and I know the politics, but the PC area is >different. If you tell the customer to go to the mobo vendor to fix the >bios, they will have to find some guy in a bunker in Taiwan. Not likely. >Now I'm at VMware actively working on consolidating companies into x86 >platforms. The simple fact that the holy war between AMD and Intel has >created processors that a cheap enough and fast enough to cause disruption >in the enterprise space. My new dual core AMD processor is incredibly fast >and the entire box cost me $500 to assemble. There's a lot of hidden EFI out there, reportedly. Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
