Re: Lilo Q

["robert jorgenson" <snoogans@qwest.net>]

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" <dmnsqrl@cybertours.com> 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)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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