Booting order / SATA onboard / IDE card

[Jose]

On 5/14/2010 8:14 AM, Alex Beamish wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> My current home NFS server is failing, and I'm working on replacing it
> with a new machine, but I'm concerned about the disk boot order on the
> new machine.
>
> The original NFS server has IDE drives, with the OS on the smaller,
> original drive (primary master) and the two data disks on the primary
> slave and secondary slave (it made sense to me to have the two data
> drives on separate channels). My motivation to change is that the
> secondary channel has been dead on this machine for some time. I can
> still get at the files, but I'd like to get things working properly
> again.
>
> The intended replacement is a P4 3GHz Dell machine which has a single
> 80G SATA drive. I was planning on buying two 500G or 1T SATA drives as
> the data disks (RAID 1, mirrored), and installing an IDE card for a
> small, inexpensive system disk. However, now I'm wondering whether the
> BIOS on this new machine will be flexible enough to be able to boot
> off the IDE disk; I'm new to SATA drive machines. Anyway, that's plan
> A, and my preferred solution.
>
> Plan B would be to leave the original SATA drive where it is in the
> new machine, use it as the system disk, and just move the original IDE
> data drives over to the new machine. The original NFS server is
> running openSolaris and the drives are using ZFS, in case anyone's
> curious.
>
> Thoughts? Comments?
>
I had the same problem, but depending on your BIOS, you can set it up as 
IDE and SATA, SATA only, mine is like your option B, kind of, weird 
arragement for playing witht he machine, I boot (grub) from the SATA but 
I actually have the OS on one of the IDE drives, but mine is linux not 
Solaris, you could try to install grub on your SATa and configure it to 
boiot from your IDE drives, should work


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