On Wednesday 05 January 2011 13:35:28 Dale wrote: > Jörg Schaible wrote: > > that approves my tests ... :-/ > > > > Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched > > arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the > > wrong one. It seems there is also some timing involved regarding the > > initialization of the available devices ... sigh. > > > > - Jörg > > I had to reboot last night and was in my BIOS looking for other things > but did notice this feature. I have a setting in my BIOS that tells it > what drive to look for to boot first. It's above the part where you > tell it to boot CDROM, hard drive, floppy, ZIP and other bootable > things. You may want to check and see if you have the same thing. Mine > is called "hard disk boot priority". I'm not sure this will help but it > couldn't hurt to check I guess. > > I also noticed something else that may not be related. I enabled AHCI a > while back and noticed it will not boot from a CD/DVD when in that > mode. I have to set it back to IDE for it to be able to boot from other > than the hard drive. Maybe if you set yours to AHCI, it will skip the > external stuff like USB?
Dale, juust out of curiosity here. Do you have your CD/DVD drive attached using a SATA-cable? Or using an "older" IDE-cable? I use AHCI in my BIOS and can boot from CD/DVD. But my DVD-drive is a SATA- drive. -- Joost
