I appreciate the feedback, Lawson, but the motherboard will not boot with a
hard drive that is not properly set up. At least, that's the symptom. Will
advise later on success/failure.
Regards, Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, April 11, 1999 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: BIOS Question
>Mike has given you one good answer. I'll go at it from a different
>angle. If you're not ging to boot from the hd, the bios doesn't have to
>know about it. I have a bios that doesn't know what a CD is. It knows
>what the first hd is, and that the second channel is enabled, and that's
>all it needs to know. Linux takes care of the CD and anything I plug in
>to the second channel.
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>HTH
>
>Lawson
> >< Microsoft free environment
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>This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
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>
>On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Jim Darrough wrote:
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>> Quick and sorta on topic:
>>
>> I have an old 486 Micron motherboard and need to get into the setup
>routine
>> to change hard drives. It uses Phoenix BIOS and pressing "delete" does
>not
>> do it. I am trying to add disk space to my SUSE Linux system.
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>> Thanks
>> Jim
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