April 27, 201214 yr Hi all - Need some input from the gurus here. I have twin MD-1510/LI Servers - one as a primary, one as a backup - built by Lime Tech here - running 5.0 beta 13. I have a real weird hardware fault that I'm going in circles here with on my backup machine. I've troubleshooted it down to this: The last 4 upper slots in the units (it has 15 slots in 3 RAID cages) - whenever I put any drive in there, the server will not boot, regardless of brand. After a RAID card/BIOS/Spin Up check, it just sits there - just before it loads UNRAID. Little blinking underscore cursor... If there are no drives in those last 4 slots - it boots normally - UNRAID is happy - it goes along its merry way. I have a mix of Barracudas and Caviars - all running well in both servers. I've replaced cables, the Icy Box RAID cage, and the RAID card in this server. It still doesn't like a drive in those last 4 slots. Ideas? What am I missing?
April 27, 201214 yr Author Interesting. You might be on to something there. In the BIOS - it has the USB Firefly as the 1st Boot Device, and the first slot parity drive as the second device to boot from. If I disable the second boot device - it comes up with a message 'Reboot and Select proper boot device'. Stops. If I interrupt the sequence with an F11, and tell it to boot from the USB Key, same message. The USB Key is on the motherboard internally.
April 27, 201214 yr Author OKAY! I found it. Thanks for the help. I got it to boot. So in the Marvell BIOS Setup > Controller > Controller Config There's a menu called 'INT 13h' (pretty cryptic huh?) Set that to 'Disable' and it turns the controller into a data device, rather than a boot device.... If you were in the room, I would hug you. Thanks for the great help!
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