[rescue] Booting SATA on an old BIOS

[Adam Breaux]

Consulting the FedoraFAQ...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/

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:
> 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
> 
> 
> Wes Will <wwill at siu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > >And I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "option ROM"...
> >
> > 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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