[Gllug] Boot from SATA, not IDE?

Huw Lynes huw-l at moving-picture.com
Mon Oct 31 08:34:59 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 09:08 +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> I've got one of these motherboards:
> 
> http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=201
> 
> Does anyone know how to get this to boot from SATA when there is also
> an ordinary IDE drive fitted?  If I have just the SATA drive, then
> it'll boot fine from that.  However if I have the SATA drive plus an
> IDE drive, it'll boot from the IDE drive every time.  Needless to say
> there is nothing obvious in the BIOS to change this.

Is there no option for controlling the boot order in the BIOS? Or does
the IDE/SATA only show up as one entry?

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