Using GRUB to boot from an pci sata raid card
Hi,
I'm in a bit of a pickle. I have a DL380 G3 HP server and I need to attach a 1TB hard drive. Of course the server only accepts SCSI and since I don't have a few thousand pounds to splash about I am looking at alternate methods.
What I have done so far is buy a PCI SATA raid card and attach the 1TB drive to it. The BIOS seemed to be playing nice detecting it and allowing me to select the card. But it won’t see the drive.
Funnily enough though when I installed Linux on the SCSI drive during the install it saw the 1TB just fine and I could write to it. This has led me to believe that I could use GRUB (installed on the SCSI) to boot the 1TB as the hardware setup is working but the BIOS just can't handle it.
So here I am with no real knowledge of GRUB. I was hoping someone could tell me where to begin with this and if it is even possible.
Oh and the server doesn’t have the option to boot from USB
Thanks for reading this far.
Alex
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