Re: GRUB doesn't boot on a DAC960 controller

[Felix Miata]

Alessandro Ambrosini wrote:
 
> I'm a newbie on Grub.
> I've just installed RedHat 7.2 on a NEC server (Intel SMP motherboard, 1 CPU
> 550 Mhz, 512 MB Ram), BIOS made by Phoenix
> RH 7.2 uses GRUB rel. 0.90
> There is no a "SCSI before IDE" option in BIOS: boot device is set as "Other
> Bootable Device" (DAC bios I suppose).
> DAC960 SCSI controller is an " Acceleraid 150" with two 9GB scsi disk
> configured as RAID-1 (mirror).
> No IDE drives.

Every good SCSI HBA BIOS automatically substitutes a portition of its
code for the motherboard's BIOS to support booting from a SCSI HD when
there are no IDE drives present. Boot from SCSI or any other
non-standard boot order is an unnecessary modern BIOS convenience that
enables choosing whether to boot a standard IDE HD or some other device,
like a SCSI HD or ATAPI CDROM, when more than one bootable device is
installed.

With many motherboard BIOS, when you choose to use such a BIOS
non-standard boot option and both choices aren't in fact there to choose
from, you get a boot failure. Reset your motherboard BIOS to standard
boot order, A:, C:, CDROM or whatever yours comes up to after a BIOS
reset and/or flash, and your trouble may go away.
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