ken bonner wrote:
> 128 megs ram,rage fury pro video, on an Asus A7V133 motherboard with onboard
>promise ATA 100 controller. (I think that's the trouble)
Found in a Mandrake forum once upon a time (can't find it now though).
User's Day II: LM 7.2 And Asus A7V With ATA 100 Hard Disk
Contributed by Tom on Friday December 01, @ 07:59AM
from the bleeding-edge dept.
chri writes "Hi, I've finally found a way to install (and use) LM 7.2
with my A7V and an ATA 100 hard disk."
"First, you need to have the Promise driver loaded in Windows. Then,
in the devices manager, find the Promise Ultra 100 IDE controler. In
the last tab of the properties ("ressources" in french), make a note
of the four first I/O addresses (for example, i have 9000,8800,8400
and 8000).
Note: you can use lspci to get this io information.
Then, you can boot with the LM 7.2 CD.
At boot, press F1, and choose the "expert" mode with parameters. With
my I/O addresses, I used:
"expert ide2=0x9000,0x8802 ide3=0x8400,0x8002"
(you add 2 for the 2nd and 4th i/o adress).
Now your hd is detected, and you can install Linux.
The last thing to do is to put these parameters in the "append" line
of the lilo configuration (or GRUB's 'menu.lst')
It worked fine for me and I really hope it'll be the same for
everybody ! "
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