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On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 01:16:37PM -0700, Rodney Mishima wrote: > >What kind of motherboard do you have, and how old is it? I'm using an > >ASUS CUWE-RM, 2000 vintage (I think) and some kind of Intel Slot 1 > >board from 1998. I didn't have to upgrade the BIOS on either one. > > I have a 2+ year old box: an ABIT KT7A-RAID motherboard (disabled RAID > functionality intentionally) with a 1.2 Ghz Athlon.
Note, KT7A is what I have. Any bootable drives on ide0 or ide1 will cause the Promise PCI card to fail to boot, regardless of BIOS settings. My BIOS is probably current - I've not flashed it in about a year now, but then again it's a 2+ year old board - probably there have not been any more updates since then.
Maybe this is a non-issue for me. Since the new drive has 160 GB, I plan to remove the other HDs. Maybe establish another sandbox environment or use one on my Mac to try a PPC Linux on a separate disk.
I do not know if ide2 or 3 (the Highpoint controller) have the same limitation regarding bootability since I do not have a Highpoint chip.
I did not buy the board for the RAID capabilities. It was a door buster at Fry's Electronic. So, in the BIOS, I set it to disable the RAID functionality.
So, if I have only the 160 GB HD on either ide0 or the PCI add-on card, it should increase the likelihood that I will be able to boot from the 160 GB HD.
Rodney
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