PCI ATA/IDE card issue revisited

[Timothy Domst]

No, it won't install from the install CD that it recognized in the 
drive during the PCI card BIOS scan.

On May 4, 2004, at 7:09 PM, Cyber Source wrote:

> Is this happening /AFTER/ you install these systems from this card?
>
> Timothy Domst wrote:
>
>> I have made a Frankenstein soon-to-be-Linux box that I want to use as 
>> a firewall only.  The mobo won't recognize drives off its built-in 
>> ATA plugs, so I got a PCI card from CompUSA.  The BIOS goes through 
>> without finding drives, and then the PCI card BIOS comes on after and 
>> recognizes the cd-rom and HD.  It also recognizes that there's a boot 
>> disk in the cd-rom drive.  Then it goes Verifying DMI pool data 
>> ................   and it doesn't find the system disk.
>>
>> This has been covered recently, but I have a hard time figuring out 
>> which boot sequence to use.  I can use SCSI,C,A or CDROM,C,A or 
>> others and I will get the two drives and boot CD to be recognized, 
>> but no system disk later.  I used SuSE 9.0 and Mandrake 9.2 and they 
>> both do the same thing.  It's a Gigabyte board, so the BIOS can't be 
>> so crazy that I wouldn't be able to find a boot selection that would 
>> work.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>