On Nov 25, 2006, at 10:06 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 09:49:13PM -0600, Dave wrote:
The unit boots find from the network. I guess I get to see if I
can downgrade the firmware but I am not having much luck finding
previous images.
Have you tried talking to Sun about this? The problem really does
sound like it's with the BIOS not supporting the ability to boot
off of an external controller. This would be something Sun would
have to address, would it not?
We have talked to Sun about it and have not heard back on a fix for
the latest BIOS. We have been given an older version of the BIOS
that does not have this issue.
Also, for what it's worth, I have a couple Intel boards which
also exhibit the same issue (re: can't boot off of an external
controller). The solution I went with was to use the onboard
SATA controller instead of my Promise controller. :-)
This is an internal on the motherboard controller that drives
the built-in disks.
--
Dave
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