From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 18 07:05:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88DE616A50D for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:05:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dsl-mail.kamp.net (mail.kamp-dsl.de [195.62.99.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA47043D58 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:05:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: (qmail 5360 invoked by uid 513); 18 Aug 2004 07:08:53 -0000 Received: from root@pukruppa.de by dsl-mail by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.21 Clear:RC:1(213.146.114.24):SA:0(-4.9/5.0):. Processed in 0.445766 secs); 18 Aug 2004 07:08:53 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO reverse-213-146-114-24.dialin.kamp-dsl.de) (213.146.114.24) by dsl-mail.kamp.net with SMTP; 18 Aug 2004 07:08:53 -0000 Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:05:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa X-X-Sender: root@pukruppa.net To: Benjamin Sobotta In-Reply-To: <200408171847.55732.mayday@gmx.net> Message-ID: <20040818082131.I780@pukruppa.net> References: <20040817094732.X820@pukruppa.net> <200408171847.55732.mayday@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA drive bootable ??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:05:44 -0000 On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Benjamin Sobotta wrote: > Hi > > I don't know about the controller but in general this should work. Just make > proper adjustments in your BIOS. I'm booting FreeBSD from an SATA RAID0. > Works perfectly fine. My BIOS doesn't show any boot options for SATA, neither does the controller. I can install FreeBSD from CD on the SATA drive, but the boot manager seems to lead nowhere. I guess my mainboard is too old for that. But that doesn't really matter: I am going to divide the disk up and mount it on my old system. Thanks, Uli. > On Tuesday 17 August 2004 07:53, Peter Ulrich Kruppa 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. +---------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---------------------------+