Maybe this will help some other Solaris neophyte. No, you can't boot from an add-in card, at least for - ASUS M3A78-CM - SYBA SD-SA2PEX-2IR (PCI-e, 2 x SATA internal)
Live CD boots from CDROM, install finds two disks, and on some occasions runs through the installation process and starts a reboot. But the reboot will always default back to the live CD or hang if there is no CD in the drive. Disabling CD boot entirely does not make the "bootable" disk boot. Perhaps another mobo bios would help. I've flashed the addin card bios to base (i.e. not RAID bios) with no change. To find the drives at all, the addin card bios must NOT have set the drives as raid anything, or reserved. When left strictly alone, the RAID bios on the card works as well as the base bios for OS's use anyway. Which is to say, you can find the disks but can't boot from them. This is an issue only because the mobo has six sata ports native. This lets me make a six-disk raidz2 using the performance of the native sata ports. If I could boot from the addin card, which is slow, but cheap, I could put the lower performance on the mirrored root pool where it would affect performance much less. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
