Solving “Verifying DMI Pool Data” hang in Fedora
I have a Linux server with Fedora that I use mainly to host storage drives. It has one boot drive, and 4 storage drives, the fourth of which is connected through a Promise Sata 200 Tx2 Plus controller.
All was great for a year or more, til I started getting a hang on boot at “Verifying DMI Pool Data”. This only happened when I plugged in a drive through the Sata Controller. I saw lots of threads with various (complex) possible solutions, but my fix luckily turned out to be simple enough, just took a lot of time to figure out.
In BIOS settings, under ‘Advanced BIOS Features’, ‘Hard Disk Boot Priority’, ‘Bootable Add-in Cards’ had made it’s way to the top, so it was trying to boot off that 4th non-bootable data drive. As soon as I moved that down below my bootable drive, everything was peachy.
Yay, finally!
