19 Jan
2013
19 Jan
'13
4:57 p.m.
On 06/01/13 23:50:11, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
If not, rather than getting a new MOBO, you could get a new SATA card - but make sure it says it'll support booting Satas disks.
I tried that and the PCIE/SATA card wouldn't boot the disc either, even though it had a boot ROM, so I've returned it for a refund.
The only way I can get it to work is to boot from a small IDE drive and have an option in the LILO boot menu to boot the SATA disc. I have to change the fstab and LILO configurations on the SATA drive to change from sda to whatever the SATA disc is, usually sdb,but it will then boot.
I have seen reports on the Web of instances where that same board would boot from SATA discs using Windows but not when using Linux.
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