On Thursday 15 November 2001 04:16 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: > > I have just upgraded my box ( unstable about 3-4 months berhind on the > > updates ). The upgrade was from PII 233 BX chipset motherboard to Athlon > > 1800+ XP VIA KT266A motherboard. The problem seems to be the following: > > > > 1. I cannot boot off the hard drive. It will see all the partitions and > > system will work fine once booted from floppy/CDROM. It will install and > > reinstall LILO without any problems. But every time I try to boot off of > > HD I get there is not boot device insert bootable disk and press enter or > > something. If anyone has any suggestions I would truly appreciate. > > first the obvious: check bios settings,
What am I looking for? The major difference is that BX didn't support advanced ATA modes so my HD used to be ATA33 and now it is ATA66. > > now just slightly less obvious: make sure lilo is installed on mbr > (at least I think that's where it needs to be, check the docs for lilo) It is installed in MBR. I have tried to clean it out with DOS fdisk /mbr and reinstall and it still doesn't work. I use 'lba32' flag and stuff. > > > 2. What driver should I use for the sound card? > > what soundcard do you have? Is it the onboard one? ac97 or something > like that is often found on via motherboards, there's a driver for that > chipset for linux (at least alsa), but the sound quality is quite poor > (at least that's my observation and also confirmed by other people on > this list) Yes, I was talking about the internal one. > > erik
