Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:00:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "K. Greenwood" <k_greenwood1@yahoo.com> To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA drive bootable ??? Message-ID: <20040817150018.64889.qmail@web14103.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040817094732.X820@pukruppa.net>
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--- Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> wrote: > Hi! > > I just started playing around with my new SATA disk > (with SATA > 150 TX2plus controller on -CURRENT). I can mount and > format it > all-right. > > Is it generally posssible to boot from such a disk > (different > question would be if it made sense to do so)? > My SATA drive is recognized as ata2-master. <snipped> Well, I was kinda hoping someone else would come up with an answer. I kinda prefer to lurk (something about opening one's mouth and removing doubt...). In the past, I have forgotten to set external controller's to be bootable. Perhaps you need to set either scsi or "mass storage device" bootable before hd/cd/floppy/whatever. Good luck. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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