03-15-2025 12:19 PM
I recently bought a system with an Asus Rog Strix X-870-A Gaminig Wifi.
I want to install numerous operaring systems. At the moment I have 5 drives installed
Drive #1 - TOSHIBA Q300. (165B30NEK1SU) [894 GB]
Drive #2 - KINGSTON SNV3S2000G (0000_0000_0000_0000_0026_B738_34AB_6F05.) [1863 GB]
Drive #3 - KINGSTON SNV3S2000G (0000_0000_0000_0000_0026_B738_34AB_6F15.) [1863 GB]
Drive #4 - KINGSTON SNV3S2000G (0000_0000_0000_0000_0026_B738_34AC_22C5.) [1863 GB] C:
Drive #5 - KINGSTON SNV3S2000G (0000_0000_0000_0000_0026_B738_34AB_3685.) [1863 GB]
The Kingston nvme drives have FreeBSD (mirrored over 2 drives), Fedora and Windows on them. The Toshiba drive has OpenIndiana installed on it.
Fedora is the active boot drive with grub2.
All went fairly well up to the point where I added the Toshiba drive last weekend. Booting from grub was very hit and miss. If I dropped to the grub prompt, "ls" would only list 4 of the 5 drives. I could boot from the Toshiba drive from F2 and the BIOS. Today I couldn't boot at all - the drive appeared as "disabled" in BIOS. The BIOS is version 1003.
The only diagnostic tool that I've tried is AIDA64 Extreme, and everything passes with that.
This looks like a BIIOS and/or grub issues.
Any suggestions as tio how to get the Toshiba SSD to boot reliably from grub?