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Trevoke
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 Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 10:41 pm Post subject: ASUS K8V-Deluxe + RAID as primary: slow boot |
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It's all in the title.
I have an amd64, a 64-bit gentoo on a RAID-1 (mirror).
Now, I have both SATA drives plugged into the RAID controller, and I have built the /dev/md .. So I gather I'm in software RAID.
It boots very slowly - as in, as far as motherboard goes it's fine, but when it's done going through the motherboard boot, it waits a long, long time before it goes into GRUB. Anybody know why or have an idea?
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Trevoke, give some more details. What is the model number of the mother board? Do you have RAID 0 set up in the BIOS? Do you have the latest BIOS update? Is this RAID controller a seperate PCI card or built into the mobo?
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| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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I have RAID-1 set up in the RAID controller setup.. In the BIOS, I have RAID as a bootable device..
The RAID controller is built into the motherboard.
I have an ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V600 motherboard.
| Code: | 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 01)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.: Unknown device 80a3
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 8
0000:00:08.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. PC-DL Deluxe motherboard
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 185
0000:00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V600 motherboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 193
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| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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I have the same system and kind of the same thing. I think the Raid BIOS querries the motherboard for a PATA harddisk for a while and then gives up and resumes with your SATA disks.
The querying is shown with an incremental sequence of dots as in ............
I never found a way around this and have a late grub prompt since I bought the machine.
Could yours be the same problem?
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It queries RAID, it finds RAID, then it queries IDE and finds the drives fine. I have a 40 gig in primary slave and a dvd/cd-rw in secondary master..
Then it looks for USB boot devices and that's where it waits (or whatever it's trying to do after that)
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