Gene Heskett composed on 2019-04-04 15:38 (UTC-0400): ... > Not with this math crippled bios bearing a 2006 copyright. It MUST be > wholly within the first couple hundred megabytes of the beginning of the > disk or it can't find it, and it is the most recent bios available for > an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboard, version 1701....
You have my sympathy for having made that choice - it has an nForce chipset. :~( Yours: https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/M2NSLI_Deluxe/ Check out the similarity to mine (Intel LGA775): https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/P5B_Deluxe/ They date to the same year, 20+ BIOS versions on downloads page for mine, starting in 2006-07, while yours has fewer total but newer "latest", beginning in 2006-08. Your 1701 is 2009-03-02, with 2 newer "beta" versions available. I use the latest "beta" for mine, 2009-02-11, am thinking about reverting to latest non-beta, 2007-04-04. Mine has so many features it seems like an eternity between the time POST completes its cleanup and Grub shows up on screen. Never have I seen any other PC reliably take *so* long. Its master /boot partition begins @282.4MB, ends @682.5. I need to try moving it to the front sometime when I have nothing better to do to see if it makes a difference, if the BIOS revert doesn't help. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
