Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:31:18 -0400 From: Walker <zflyer@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@freebsd.org>, dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: bsdlabel, now no boot Message-ID: <6293ba970803190731y2ec9eca5mc5c62c52e67dd1ea@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <76C6FE72-043C-4EFB-8598-98BB73E11345@hiwaay.net> References: <ABE0BB59-27A6-4F21-A098-EA8314133B7E@hiwaay.net> <76C6FE72-043C-4EFB-8598-98BB73E11345@hiwaay.net>
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On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:26 PM, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> 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.
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