Might wany to look into the "boot off-board chipset first support" feature in the kernel, after reading the help it says it may help with problems of booting ide devices in expansion cards before the bios. I dont know much of anything about this but i was just reading through it after reading this thread and i thought i would let you know about it so please dont flame da newb :) bwt its under "ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL Support --> IDE, ATA and ATAPI Bock devices --> Boot off-board chipsets first support" in xconfig
On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 22:33:44 -0400 (EDT) "Alice M. Pinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I'm continuing to try and troubleshoot a hd that doesn't seem to want > to boot (promise ultra card, 60g hd) I just wanna doublecheck one thing > > > If I don't even get a LI or L or _something_ from lilo.... it's definitely > not a lilo problem and it's somewhere further up in the pipeline? > > Or could there possibly be a lilo-related problem such that I wouldn't > even be get a smidgen of a prompt > > (and would any situation where attempts to put lilo into an mbr involve > squawks of '/dev/hde1 is not on the first disk' be even more likely > candidates for situations where it could be a 'lilo problem' without any > smidgen of a prompt showing up?) > > oh, and it's lilo 22.2-3 > > -Alice > > (just checking) > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
