how easy is it to boot into sata

galileon · 05-30-2006, 09:14 AM

Hello everyone,

I've already posted this in fedoraforums.org, but I've not got a definite answer yet...

I wish to build a new computer and boot into a sata hdd, using the mobo Asus P5ND2-SLI,
north: NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Intel Edition
south:MCP04

i was wondering if anyone has had success with that yet, or if anyone knew how I could find out beforehand before buying them...

thanks a lot in advance,

Galileon.

nilleso · 05-30-2006, 09:47 AM

I've been using only sata for the past 1.5 years in linux (suse 10+ and gentoo) with no problems. I guess it depends on the distro.. but I wouldn't expect problems.

MadTurki · 05-30-2006, 01:09 PM

I used RedHat 9 back in the day when SATA was pretty new and failed to get it to boot. I'm almost certain any newer distro would have no problem though (ie. FC4)

Walman · 05-30-2006, 03:55 PM

Guys

You could not get to boot in using SATA because you probably did not have the drivers for it . RH stopped giving support to normal people like us .

You should not have any problems booting with SATA disks provided that your distro supports it

galileon · 05-31-2006, 06:28 AM

thanks for the info guys,
I'm planning to use fedora core 5, but if it's not so good i'd fallback on slack....