<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Brad Fuller <<a href="mailto:bradallenfuller@gmail.com">bradallenfuller@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
A little off topic, but something you might want to know and if anyone<br>
has a solution to this, I'd love to hear it.<br>
<br>
I have two PATAs and one SATA on the board. One odd thing on my<br>
GA-M68SM-S2 is that the SATA drive either doesn't show up, or gets<br>
rearranged in the boot order, on cold boot. I don't know why. In my<br>
setup, I have Linux on a PATA drive and windows on a SATA drive.<br>
Originally, I placed the SATA drive as the first drive. Well, on cold<br>
boot that drive doesn't exist or is down the list of drives to boot<br>
(the boot order is rearranged so the SATA is at the bottom.) and the<br>
bios tried to boot another drive To circumvent that, I placed the PATA<br>
drive with Linux as the first drive in the list to boot, and entered<br>
an item in grub.conf to boot windows from the SATA drive (if I needed<br>
to boot into windows.) However, as I said, on cold boot, the SATA<br>
drive doesn't seem to exist so if I choose "windows" to boot from the<br>
grub menu, it can't find the drive. So, I have to reboot, and then the<br>
drive is found and I can boot into windows.<br>
<br>
As I said, a little off topic; something you should know; and if<br>
anyone has ideas for a solution, I'm all ears.<br>
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--<br>
Brad Fuller<br>
<a href="http://www.bradfuller.com" target="_blank">www.bradfuller.com</a><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>Saw this on the newegg reviews: "Head-scratcher - I couldn't get the board to boot the sata hard drive from cold start. I searched and finally found the reason. After a bios update, you need to load the optimized defaults in the bios. I did that, rebooted then went in and made my bios tweaks. All was well after that."<br>
<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16813128065">http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16813128065</a><br>