Subject: Re: Boot problem - Error no operating system on SATA drive
To: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
From: Peter Hardman <peter@ssbg.zetnet.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/14/2006 10:46:29
On 14 Sep 2006 at 3:24, John R. Shannon wrote:

> Peter Hardman wrote:
> > On 13 Sep 2006 at 21:08, David Laight wrote:
> > 
<snip>
 to put the IDE drive back tomorrow and 
> > run hexdump from there. I've not got into that level of detail yet. Its a nifty tool- you 
> > can read the all the gory details in the mbr (or I could if my brain could dig out it's 
> > 386 machine code reference :)
> 
> I experienced the same problem several months ago with a Supermicro 
> P8SGA motherboard and SATA drive using the built-in ICH6 SATA 
> Controller. I never resolved the problem.
> 
Yes, I saw that. But it didn't seem to be quite the same scenario otherwise I 
wouldn't have posted. But perhaps it is in the end.

> 
> -- 
> John R. Shannon
> 

Peter Hardman
Breeder of Shetland sheep and cattle