PCI IDE Card

[Cyber Source]

that may be but to hit the kernel, you have to hit the drive first.

pvant67 at wnyip.net wrote:

> 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:
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>
>>
> actually, there is a kernel option to "boot off-board chipsets first"
>