[ale] ASUS P5MT question

[Dow_Hurst]

Thanks!  I've checked those settings and have disabled them.  There was no Serial-ATA Boot ROM.  I disabled the 3ware boot BIOS and the Onboard LAN Boot ROM.  I found I was still getting the boot failure so took out the RAID card.  I still have this problem.  So, I am going back to square one and making sure cables are okay and that I can get a single SATA or PATA drive to work.  I am amazed at how much trouble I've had trying to put all this hardware together and get it to work!  Usually stuff just works.

I think lack of knowledge on my part thru inexperience with 3ware RAID cards and server motherboards in general caused the most problems.  I was also doing this on a budget and have found thru reading listservs that the few low end server motherboards that were in my price range have hardware compatibility problems.  I guess the biggest problem is the BIOS is picky about hardware.  I might have installation problems with SUSE 10.1 that I'm not aware of.  Maybe Grub didn't get installed properly and is compounding the problem.

What is the story on ICH7R chipset support since this motherboard has that?  From what I've found it isn't supported well except should work in a legacy mode.  That is what I thought I was setting in the BIOS.  It probably will turn out to not be the BIOS but a bad cable or hard drive or failed Grub install.  Something I'm not expecting!!
Thanks,
Dow


-----Original Message-----
>From: "J. D." <jdonline at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jul 16, 2006 2:26 PM
>To: Dow_Hurst <Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com>, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>Subject: Re: [ale] ASUS P5MT question
>
>Hey Dow,
>
>     If you are booting off of the PATA drive then you might try checking
>the following bios settings:
>
>Advanced
>Onboard Serial-ATA Boot ROM   [Disabled]
>Onboard LAN Boot ROM             [Disabled]
>
>Also check the Boot Priority to ensure the bios is trying to boot the hard
>drive before the 3ware, lan, or any other potentially troublesome stuff.
>
>Best regards,
>
>J. D.
>
>On 7/16/06, Dow_Hurst <dhurst at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>> System will POST.  Has one 80GB IDE PATA drive in legacy PATA controller
>> slot as primary boot drive.  Has secondary DVDRW on that same
>> controller.  Has no SATA drives plugged into onboard ICH7R controller
>> slots.  Has a 3ware 8port 9550SX Raid with 7 SATA WD400YR drives in RAID 5
>> with 6 in the RAID and one hot spare.  The system went thru the SUSE 10.1net install just fine.  It partitioned the PATA drive and built filesystems
>> on the PATA and RAID drives.  I had previously used the 3ware BIOS manager
>> to create the RAID and initialize it.  When the suse installer rebooted to
>> start the system I got a continuous beep from the motherboard and no
>> boot.  Same thing happens when I try a cold boot.  I can get into the Setup
>> or the 3ware BIOS manager just fine.  I think I need to get the ICH7R into a
>> legacy mode, but not sure how to pick the options precisely.  Thanks for any
>> advice!
>> Dow
>>
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