PCI IDE Card

[pvant67 at wnyip.net]

Cyber Source wrote:
> I've booted off of PCI controllers before with way older kernels than he 
> has, you may have to do some noodling with Lilo or Grub but it will work 
> as long as his mobo can boot to a SCSI setting in the BIOS and all 
> that's needed to check that is a simple boot process.
> 
> Mark T. Valites wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Cyber Source wrote:
>>
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>>> It will work, you would first install the card and hook up your drive,
>>> boot the system with the OS cd (I think I recall you have a Mandrake 9?
>>> box), It will give you options to reload the boot loader, etc. Do that
>>> and when it reboots, go into your BIOS and change the boot loader so
>>> that the option of SCSI is chosen before any of the onboard controllers
>>> (IDE0 and the like). When you tell a BIOS to boot to SCSI, it doesn't
>>> have to be SCSI, it is really just telling it to look for a boot
>>> record/device other than the onboard stuff.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Do some googling to make sure your BIOS supports this.
>>
>> Also check the Documentation in the kernel source to see if you can boot
>> off a PCI controller - I'm fairly sure you can not.
>>
>>
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> 
> 
actually, there is a kernel option to "boot off-board chipsets first"

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