[Techtalk] Start again

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 03:18:24AM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Andrew thought:
> 
> Basically after changing the cabling and jumpers I may have taken a 
> step backwards? Now I get a repeated message; With the IDE PCI card 
> out.
> "Boot Failure
>   Reboot and select proper Boot device
> Press any key when ready._ _ _ _"
> 
> stops. I got a good idea the machine worked when I installed a 5th 
> drive and was able to boot from the CD and write to the drive (with 
> the PCI card hanging out) and then... and thennn, it would not boot 
> from the new 5th hard drive. At that point I re-cabled the thing 
> changed the jumpers. Now I still get the message above(Boot Failure)

You said in a previous post that you had put the 5th HD on the secondary
IDE controller.  I'm not certain about this but I _think_ you need to have
it on the primary controller to be able to boot from it.  Of course, once
you're booting from the raid controller, that will be irrelevant.  I
wonder is the RAID set not properly bootable yet so it is trying to hand
off to the IDE set and not finding anything bootable there.  I had this
behaviour with a SCSI controller (it had a CDROM on it).  The scsi
controller would boot from CD but if there was no CD present, would hang
with a flashing cursor.  It wasn't until I had a properly bootable HD on
the IDE controller that the boot process would carry on.  However, until
the IDE Hd was bootable, I got no error messages!

Conor
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