Re: Need isapnp early in boot. How?

[shaleh@clifford.livenet.net]

> 
> Hello-
> 
> My home system has a CD attached to a SB Vibra 16 board, with 2 other drives off the
> single channel IDE controller.  If I don't first boot into DOS or OS/2, the
> CD is incorrectly recognized (hdg instead of hdc) and is inaccessable. 
> 
> Isapnp apparently comes up too late in the boot to help.  I currently get
> messages about resource conflicts when it tries to initialize (though things
> work since the card's been warmed booted from another OS).  I've checked the
> settings and they match what I use in DOS and OS/2.
> 
> How early can I get isapnp to initialize the card?  Should I put the script
> in rc.boot, or elsewhere? 
> 

rc.boot is is obsolete.  use rc.S (there is a doc in that dir).  It should be
safe, /etc is almost always mounted (remember that isapnp depends on the conf
in /etc so make sure /etc/ exists before you use it.

> Under OS/2 I need a special little (3rd party) driver to specifically initialize the IDE
> port ... does anyone know whether this is also a problem under Linux which isapnp
> doesnt address on a cold boot?
> 

"odd" hardware like this is touchy at best.  You may be stuck warm booting.