PCI ATA/IDE card issue revisited

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Sat May 8 13:03:07 EDT 2004


what is the last thing you see ?

Are there boot options in the BIOS on the add-on card itself?

Timothy Domst wrote:

> Yes, it recognizes the hard drive and CDROM, and the boot disk in the 
> CD drive.  It won't boot from the CD, though.
>
> On May 7, 2004, at 10:25 AM, Cyber Source wrote:
>
>> In the messages from the BIOS of the add-on card, does it recognize 
>> the hard drive and cdrom? Are there boot options in the BIOS on the 
>> add-on card itself?
>>
>> Timothy Domst wrote:
>>
>>> It never gets past messages from the BIOS.  Linux isn't even on it 
>>> yet and it won't startup from the CDROM.
>>>
>>> On May 5, 2004, at 10:14 PM, Mark T. Valites wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 5 May 2004, Timothy Domst wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> No, it won't install from the install CD that it recognized in the
>>>>> drive during the PCI card BIOS scan.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do you have any specific error messages? dmesg output? output from 
>>>> one of
>>>> the virtual consoles?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Mark T. Valites
>>>> Unix Systems Analyst
>>>> Computing & Information Technology
>>>> SUNY Geneseo
>>>>
>>>>> --))> >--))>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>



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