If you see my previous e-mail regarding this topic, I have been
successful in triple booting Win98/Win2K/Mdk8.1B3 on the Promise ATA100
onboard controller - you only need to add the bios info into the
lilo.conf
I also have a drive connected to the onboard ATA66 controller too.. . .
no problem!
Cheers,
R. Fox
On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 10:34, Sylvain OBEGI wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Borsenkow Andrej" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 10:15 AM
> Subject: RE: [Cooker] Mandrake 8.1 Beta 3
>
>
> > > I also have a A7V. There is no problem with Mandrake, except a bug
> > with
> > > Lilo
> > > :
> > > I use the hd on the Promise to boot (hde), and, if hda is present, and
> > > even
> > > if I select hde as boot device, lilo installs "fine", but at boot I
> > get a
> > > "LI" message. And so I have to unplug my hda drive and reinstall Lilo
> > (and
> > > by the way I can't boot on hda via Lilo)
> > >
> >
> > It is not a bug. Lilo relies on BIOS to access boot device. BIOS
> > normally cannot access more than 4 IDE drives. When you unplug hda I
> > guess Promise BIOS plays some tricks (like SCSI controllers do) to allow
> > BIOS to see this drive.
>
> I CAN boot hde with hda connected, there is an option for that in the Bios,
> by the way, there is a Promise Bios, like SCSI ones. The problem is that
> lilo can't install correctly in hde if hda connected.
>
> > Why cannot you boot from hda?
>
> Because, since if hda is connected at install, lilo doesn't work, so lilo
> refused to provide a boot option on hda, coz it's not present (at install).
> Not very clear, ok :)
>
>
> Sylvain OBEGI
> Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ICQ : 661913
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