"Jerry S." bugzjer@aol.com top posted his reply:
In the BIOS you should also be able to specify the boot drive as well.
jer
Barry Schiffman wrote:
I have a Dell Precision 360, which has both onboard SATA and ultra ATA controllers, and I put one of each kind of drive into the bays to make an experimental machine with the xen kernel.
After enabling both of drives, the BIOS recognizes each drive, but it fails to boot, giving me the message "secondary drive 1 not found". The BIOS gives me a choice of going ahead or going to setup. Choosing 'continue anyway' has no effect.
I can circumvent this going to F12 to manually choose to boot from the 'Primary Master' (rather than the SATA primary, or the CD, or Hard Disk Drive C:). I still get the warning about secondary drive 1 not found, but now I can choose to go ahead. At this point, grub takes over and everything is fine, boots fine, both drives show up.
In fact, I installed CentOS from the DVD, and during installation there was no hint of a problem with using the two drives.
In the BIOS setup, I do not get all the drives to choose from -- just Hard Disk Drive C: and the CD.
Can anyone suggest a way around this?
Depending on the BIOS options, you may be able to set the SATA to "no auto-detect" and "no drive". The kernel should still probe the SATA channel and give you access to the drive once the system is up. This is highly BIOS dependent but I've seen it work as described when the BIOS supports it.
It's kind of strange that the BIOS is complaining about "secondary drive 1 not found". Sounds like a BIOS bug. Is there a BIOS update available?
Cheers, Dave
--- "David G. Miller" dave@davenjudy.org wrote:
"Jerry S." bugzjer@aol.com top posted his reply:
In the BIOS you should also be able to specify the
boot drive as well.
jer
Barry Schiffman wrote:
I have a Dell Precision 360, which has both
onboard
SATA and ultra ATA controllers, and I put one
of each
kind of drive into the bays to make an
experimental
machine with the xen kernel.
After enabling both of drives, the BIOS
recognizes
each drive, but it fails to boot, giving me the message "secondary drive 1 not found". The BIOS
gives
me a choice of going ahead or going to setup.
Choosing
'continue anyway' has no effect.
I can circumvent this going to F12 to manually
choose
to boot from the 'Primary Master' (rather than
the
SATA primary, or the CD, or Hard Disk Drive
C:). I
still get the warning about secondary drive 1
not
found, but now I can choose to go ahead. At
this
point, grub takes over and everything is fine,
boots
fine, both drives show up.
In fact, I installed CentOS from the DVD, and
during
installation there was no hint of a problem
with using
the two drives.
In the BIOS setup, I do not get all the drives
to
choose from -- just Hard Disk Drive C: and the
CD.
Can anyone suggest a way around this?
Depending on the BIOS options, you may be able to set the SATA to "no auto-detect" and "no drive". The kernel should still probe the SATA channel and give you access to the drive once the system is up. This is highly BIOS dependent but I've seen it work as described when the BIOS supports it.
It's kind of strange that the BIOS is complaining about "secondary drive 1 not found". Sounds like a BIOS bug. Is there a BIOS update available?
Cheers, Dave
I believe that's the case. In fact, there have been four updates since the version that's on the box now. They address a bunch of issues, but nothing quite like this. Either, I'll hunt up another SATA drive (presumably Dell sold these with with two drives) or I'll do the update in the next week or so.
The options in this BIOS is limited. AUTO or OFF. When it's off, it's invisible from there on.
Thanks,
Barry
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Barry Schiffman wrote:
I believe that's the case. In fact, there have been four updates since the version that's on the box now. They address a bunch of issues, but nothing quite like this. Either, I'll hunt up another SATA drive (presumably Dell sold these with with two drives) or I'll do the update in the next week or so.
The options in this BIOS is limited. AUTO or OFF. When it's off, it's invisible from there on.
I don't have that specific model, but I've seen bios versions that just list 'hard drive' as one of the choices where you are setting boot order but there is another place where you pick which of several hard drives should be primary. But rather than fight with that part, I usually install grub and /boot on whichever drive the box prefers to boot and / can be somewhere else - even a drive not seen by bios.
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