Many years ago, I had an Athlon 64 workstation paired with some type of 3Ware SATA RAID controller (a 9650SE, I think). Every other boot, the BIOS would fail t

Many years ago, I had an Athlon 64 workstation paired with some type of 3Ware SATA RAID controller (a 9650SE, I think). Every other boot, the BIOS would fail to initialize the controller, leaving the computer stuck at a "non-bootable device" error until I could manually reboot it. My solution? A perpetually plugged-in USB flash drive with a small boot loader that would simply reboot the machine again, set to a lower boot priority than the SATA RAID controller. It was pretty stupid, but if it's stupid and it works...