Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com>  wrote:
> <SNIP>
>>> IF by the 'first screen' you mean what you see when booting up then it
>>> may or may not be a problem. I suspect your BIOS settings got
>>> scrambled a bit. With my Asus MB there is an option to tell it to show
>>> the drives on the first screen or not. If BIOS gets set back to
>>> default then I don't see them. I then go in, set the option, and then
>>> I do see them.
> <SNIP>
>
>> By first screen, I mean the first screen that the BIOS pops up when booting.
>>   You know, shows CPU, memory, drives and tells you to hit DEL to enter the
>> BIOS config.  The second screen is the one that pops up right after the
>> BIOS.  It is actually the SATA AHCI controller according to what it says.
>>   It only shows up when AHCI is enabled I think.  Grub comes up after that.
> On my machine your first screen is configurable. It doesn't show
> drives by default but I have a BIOS option which turns it on.
>
> If I fall back to BIOS #2 then I don't see the drives just like you
> are reporting. I have fallen back to BIOS #2 a couple of times on
> power failure. One problem on 'power supply on the bottom' chassis is
> it puts the power cable right near my feet and I've kicked the cable
> out of the box twice in the last 18 months. My UPS won't protect me
> from such stupidity! ;-)
>
> Good luck getting to the root cause.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
>

I looked for such a option but I can't find it anywhere.  It may be 
there but I can't find it.  Since it is working and the AHCI controller 
sees the drives, I'm going to leave well enough alone.

I also rebooted to the NEW sysrescue stick and cfdisk worked fine.  It 
displayed all the drive partitions and other info just like it should.  
I guess there was something off with cfdisk on the stick.

All this from a raccoon knocking out power.  Pesky critter.

Dale

:-)  :-)