On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:44:16PM -0700, nate wrote: > <quote who="Vinai Kopp"> > > Any idea how I could manage to make this possible? > > try finding an upgrade to the bios or replace the board. > most boards i have seen have an option to boot from a "SCSI" > device(a PCI IDE controller is usually seen by the bios as > a SCSI card), or the more advanced ones support some boot protocol > that allows the bios and the PCI controller card to talk > to each other(have only seen this personally on serverboards with > ServerWorks chipsets and intel L440GX+ chipsets). I forget > the name of the protocol. First, thank you for the ideas! I tried setting the bott from SCSI device option, but the system just froze. :( > > if you remove any ide disks from the onboard controller the > PCI controller may automatically re-map itself so it can > be bootable. depends on the card and the motherboard/bios > i think though. I tried that, also didn't work. So, it seems I just have a dumb motherboard. I'll look into putting a couple of small harddisks on /dev/hda and /dev/hdc to supply the /boot (and, if necessary, the /) partition. Thanks for your suggestions, once again! cu -- Vinai Registered Linux User #280755, Debian GNU/Linux http://counter.li.org/ Secure eMail with gnupg http://www.gnupg.org/
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