[rescue] Booting SATA on an old BIOS

[Kevin]

Your BIOS seems to have more boot options than most.. i've never
seen USB FDD (or USB CDROM) as an option.  Unfortunately, i think
it is"Option ROM" that you would need here.

/KRM

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 19:09:13 +0000
Goten <goten at squad-wars.com> wrote:

> I've tried the SCSI option... Actually, I've tried HDD-0,
> HDD-1, HDD-2, HDD-3, SCSI, RAID, LAN, ZIP100, LS120, FLOPPY,
> CDROM, USB-FDD, USB-HDD and USB-CDROM. I think it's down to the
> fact that a) my BIOS sees the SATA controller as a "Mass
> storage device" as opposed to a SCSI controller or SATA
> controller. Ideally I'd get my hands on a current (or at least
> within the last 6 months) BIOS, because there would at least be
> 
> the chance of getting a SATA option...
> 
> And I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "option ROM"...
> 
> Kevin wrote:
> 
> >The only two options that i have seen work with SATA
> >controllers have been:
> >
> >1. Boot from option ROM
> >or
> >2. Boot from SCSI, assuming that there are no "real" SCSI
> >controllers present.
> >
> >As usual, i could be wrong but, if you don't have either of
> >these options available to you, i don't see how you could
> >accomplish this.
> >
> >/KRM
> >
> >On Tue,  7 Dec 2004 22:26:18 +0000
> >goten at squad-wars.com wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I've been trying for the past few days to get my new SATA
> >drive>(80GB SATA150 Seagate 7200RPM Barracuda) to boot without
> >an IDE>drive in the system. My BIOS has no settings that want
> >to work>with booting the SATA drive (it's a PCI controller,
> >not an>on-motherboard controller).
> >>
> >>So far, I've managed to get my BIOS a year closer to current
> >>(now it's 16/01/2003 rather than 19/07/2002), which didn't
> >get>me anything other than the ability to boot from USB...
> >>
> >>I really don't want to have an IDE drive in the system (other
> >>than my CD/RW and DVD drives, that is)... For reference, here
> >>are my PC specs:
> >>
> >>CPU Type: Intel Celeron 4, 1700 MHz (17 x 100)
> >>Motherboard Name: Soltek SL-85MIV(-L)  (3 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DIMM,
> >>Audio, Video) Motherboard Chipset: VIA VT8751 Apollo P4M266
> >>System Memory: 640 MB  (DDR SDRAM)
> >>BIOS Type: Award (01/16/03)
> >>Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200  (128 MB)
> >>3D Accelerator: nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
> >>Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor [NoDB]
> >>Audio Adapter: VIA AC'97 Enhanced Audio Controller
> >>IDE Controller: VIA Bus Master IDE Controller
> >>SCSI/RAID Controller: Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATALink
> >>Controller Disk Drive: Maxtor 2F030J0  (30 GB, 5400 RPM,
> >>Ultra-ATA/133) Disk Drive: ST380013 AS SCSI Disk Device  (80
> >>GB, 7200 RPM, Serial-ATA/150) Optical Drive: ATAPI CDRW 52X32
> >
> >>(52x/32x CD-RW) Optical Drive: HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8161B 
> >>(16x/48x DVD-ROM) Network Adapter: D-Link DFE-528TX PCI
> >Adapter>
> >>
> >>Any ideas would be good.
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