Re: Lilo Q

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

heh after reading more in that same section the "Other IDE chipset configuration" section looks like its also worth a look.

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 08:25:20 -0700
"robert jorgenson" <snoogans@qwest.net> wrote:

> 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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