I can't believe it, after looking at my BIOS device start options, there is absolutely no option for controller cards at all,but there are the following :
Diskette Drive 0(my floppy drive)
CD-ROM
Harddrive 0 (whihc indicates the IDE and which I used to use when I had an IDE drive in there)
After getting sick of using the floppy to boot I just took it out and shut off the machine , a couple of hours later I come back to the machine and I remove the floppy and boot the PC inorder to boot from knoppix (so I can access a terminal) which was supposedly in the CD-ROM drive .
My boot sequence was as follows :
Diskette Drive
CD-ROM
Harddisk 0 (ofcourse I knew that I no longer have an IDE drive in hte machine, but I just had it in there anyways.)
But I look at my desk and I find the knoppix 4.0 CD-ROM on the desk and that I forgot to put it in the CD-ROM Drive, I grab it and inserted it into the drive and just before I push restart inorder to restart the boot sequence, I look at my monitor and I see GRUB loading and the Fedora Core 5 menu on the screen , I am like "WTF!" I select Fedora Core 5 and it boots straight into Fedora!!!
I couldn't believe it, I shutdown the machine verified that I had no other media hooked up to it, booted to BIOS my start options haven't changed , try it again and the machine boots up from my SATA card which is hooked up to my SATA WD drive!!!
How the hell was my old and dusty IBM Pentium II 450 MHZ Intellistation E-pro able to boot from an SATA card as if it was Harddrive 0 ?
Am I missing something here ?
I had tons of old machines before most of them P III and above and non were able to boot from an SATA card if they didn't have specefic SATA controller options in their BIOS.
Either it's something that is commmon knwoledge and I didn't know about it, or IBM workstations kick ass (which they do anyways
) !!!
Diskette Drive 0(my floppy drive)
CD-ROM
Harddrive 0 (whihc indicates the IDE and which I used to use when I had an IDE drive in there)
After getting sick of using the floppy to boot I just took it out and shut off the machine , a couple of hours later I come back to the machine and I remove the floppy and boot the PC inorder to boot from knoppix (so I can access a terminal) which was supposedly in the CD-ROM drive .
My boot sequence was as follows :
Diskette Drive
CD-ROM
Harddisk 0 (ofcourse I knew that I no longer have an IDE drive in hte machine, but I just had it in there anyways.)
But I look at my desk and I find the knoppix 4.0 CD-ROM on the desk and that I forgot to put it in the CD-ROM Drive, I grab it and inserted it into the drive and just before I push restart inorder to restart the boot sequence, I look at my monitor and I see GRUB loading and the Fedora Core 5 menu on the screen , I am like "WTF!" I select Fedora Core 5 and it boots straight into Fedora!!!
I couldn't believe it, I shutdown the machine verified that I had no other media hooked up to it, booted to BIOS my start options haven't changed , try it again and the machine boots up from my SATA card which is hooked up to my SATA WD drive!!!
How the hell was my old and dusty IBM Pentium II 450 MHZ Intellistation E-pro able to boot from an SATA card as if it was Harddrive 0 ?
Am I missing something here ?
I had tons of old machines before most of them P III and above and non were able to boot from an SATA card if they didn't have specefic SATA controller options in their BIOS.
Either it's something that is commmon knwoledge and I didn't know about it, or IBM workstations kick ass (which they do anyways
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