[ale] Boot failed

[Geoffrey]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Fri February 10 2006 10:10 am, danlambert at bellsouth.net wrote:
>  
> 
>>   
>>Because of problems I've experienced in the past with some BIOS
>>versions not liking to cooperate when using multiple boot devices,
>>I've been using  only the CD drive (usually configured as the first
>>boot device, and then the drive I prefer (IDE or SATA) as the second
>>boot device.
>>
>>
>>>While troubleshooting the current issue, I switched it to:
>>>
>>>1: CD-ROM
>>>2: Floppy
>>>3: IDE
>>>4: SATA
> 
> 
> unless you got updated drivers, SATA isn't supported in the 2.6 kernel, 
> to the best of my knowledge..
> I just did a RHES install, V3 update 4, and it failed to load with dual 
> SATA drives. The customer had to go out and buy a new server with a 
> SCSI drive.

I have two sata boxes, both installed without a hitch with stock SuSE 
10.0 on 2.6 kernels.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey