If all else fails you can use Smart Boot Manager (http://btmgr.webframe.org/) as a boot strap to take away control of the boot priority from the BIOS. On 5/25/06, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:49:39PM -0500, nick thompson wrote: > > I have this card, and I have had problems with it because it seems to > > want to boot and take priority away from the sata controller on the > > board (where i have my boot drive, and another drive) so I can't boot > > with it in. Is there a way to get around this other than putting the > > boot drive on this card? > > Nick, > > You should be able to do two things: > > - at boot, watch for the card BIOS message, enter into the BIOS and > disable booting from it (you can enter it with Ctrl-A, Ctlr-S, F2 > - you might need to attach a drive to it to see the message) > > - in the computer's main BIOS, check for boot options - depending > on the manufacturer they can be in different places and with > different names: if you can send a URL to the board manual we > should be able to point you to the right place > > florin > > -- > There was a typo, but on the wrong page. > -- Vipin Kumar > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEdfHLND0rFCN2b1sRAkwZAJ9Q5ZbBYAcQNg6b9ScQNXYFMU4qMgCgpcLJ > FLqeShgVFzOGmruN4Dx8xbg= > =OMrk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -- Loren H. Burlingame <loren at lhb.name> GPG Key ID: 0x112DCF4F "Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." -William Shatner (a.k.a. Buck Murdock)