[rescue] Booting SATA on an old BIOS

[Goten]

Ah, the wonders of DECENT tech support!

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Attached is the BETA BIOS for you. After update to this version, please 
enter "BIOS Setup" --> "Advanced BIOS Features" to set the [SATA HDD] as 
the first item under "Hard Disk Boot Priority". Then set "First Boot 
Device" to [Hard Disk] to see if it works.
 
Thanks and regards,
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Lydia Lai/ SOLTEK            
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Woo! Go Soltek! No to go try it ;)

Adam Breaux wrote:

>Consulting the FedoraFAQ...
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>http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/
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>Installed to a floppy, you might be able to nurse this into booting
>from the SATA drive.
>
>On Wed,  8 Dec 2004 13:20:19 -0500 (EST), Kevin <kevin at mpcf.com> wrote:
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>>In the PC world, Option ROM option in the BIOS can usually be
>>used to boot from an add in controller card, such as a SATA card.
>>
>>This is not normally used for SCSI, but i have used them for both
>>SATA cards and upgraded PATA adapters.
>>
>>/KRM
>>
>>On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 13:23:14 -0600
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>>
>>Wes Will <wwill at siu.edu> wrote:
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>>>>And I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "option ROM"...
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>>>>
>>>OS on a chip, most times socketed directly into the
>>>motherboard.  Replaces or supplements the BIOS.  Sometimes can
>>>be an adapter board, with a firmware OS and some sort of kludge
>>>to get the beast to boot from a non-disk disk.  Might not be
>>>available for your hardware (I wasn't paying attention to the
>>>thread).
>>>
>>>Without a BIOS update with the SATA option (unless you have
>>>considered writing your own BIOS patch and burning an EEPROM, a
>>>personalized update, per se) you are just not going to get this
>>>to boot from the SATA disk. Consider a minimal floppy or CD
>>>boot with the main files on the SATA drive and a set of SATA
>>>drivers?  Or some tiny old hard disk stuck in there just to get
>>>things rolling.
>>>
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