Re: WD Reds get dropped on boot

2015-02-09 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > However, when you boot the computer, the BIOS is still invoked as the > very first bit of executable code. It initialises the hardware and then > reads the first sector of the first hard drive and executes that as > native code. Typicall

Re: WD Reds get dropped on boot

2015-02-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 03:02:02PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Some guys at the WD forum suggested this could be a BIOS issue, which > kinda sucks as i'm not in the mood to get a new mobo. > I was under the impression linux doesn't really need the BIOS to > operate, but i'm not versed in the art

Re: WD Reds get dropped on boot

2015-02-08 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/08/2015 10:02 AM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Some guys at the WD forum suggested this could be a BIOS issue, which kinda sucks as i'm not in the mood to get a new mobo. I was under the impression linux doesn't really need the BIOS to operate, but i'm not versed in the art of bootloading. Can any

Re: WD Reds get dropped on boot

2015-02-08 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Some guys at the WD forum suggested this could be a BIOS issue, which kinda sucks as i'm not in the mood to get a new mobo. I was under the impression linux doesn't really need the BIOS to operate, but i'm not versed in the art of bootloading. Can anyone point me to some reading material on this (