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On Wednesday 05 January 2011 13:35:28 Dale wrote: |
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> Jörg Schaible wrote: |
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> > that approves my tests ... :-/ |
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> > |
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> > Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched |
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> > arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the |
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> > wrong one. It seems there is also some timing involved regarding the |
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> > initialization of the available devices ... sigh. |
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> > |
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> > - Jörg |
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> I had to reboot last night and was in my BIOS looking for other things |
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> but did notice this feature. I have a setting in my BIOS that tells it |
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> what drive to look for to boot first. It's above the part where you |
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> tell it to boot CDROM, hard drive, floppy, ZIP and other bootable |
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> things. You may want to check and see if you have the same thing. Mine |
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> is called "hard disk boot priority". I'm not sure this will help but it |
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> couldn't hurt to check I guess. |
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> I also noticed something else that may not be related. I enabled AHCI a |
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> while back and noticed it will not boot from a CD/DVD when in that |
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> mode. I have to set it back to IDE for it to be able to boot from other |
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> than the hard drive. Maybe if you set yours to AHCI, it will skip the |
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> external stuff like USB? |
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Dale, juust out of curiosity here. |
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Do you have your CD/DVD drive attached using a SATA-cable? Or using an "older" |
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IDE-cable? |
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I use AHCI in my BIOS and can boot from CD/DVD. But my DVD-drive is a SATA- |
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drive. |
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