Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:05:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Benjamin Sobotta <mayday@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA drive bootable ??? Message-ID: <20040818082131.I780@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <200408171847.55732.mayday@gmx.net> References: <20040817094732.X820@pukruppa.net> <200408171847.55732.mayday@gmx.net>
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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.
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