On October 5, 2001 03:26 pm, quaylar wrote: > At 13:51 05.10.2001 -0400, you wrote: > >On October 5, 2001 01:26 pm, quaylar wrote: > > > hiho ppl ! > > > > > > > > > > > > is someone out there having the same problem i have ?: > > > > > > installing mandrake 8.1 on the onboard promise ATA100 controller of > > > motherboard ASUS A7V KT133). > > > > > > i have a 30 gig IBM hd on the primary promise controller jumpered as > > > slave (i already tried master) and i�m getting > > > > > > L 01 01 01 01 etc. > > > > > > at starting of LILO... > > > > > > according to the lilo users guide this would occur when the bios doesnt > > > recognize the drive or when theres a geometry mismatch. > > > so i tried setting the disk=/bios=/sectors, cylinders, heads= options > > > in my lilo.conf, but all to no avail.... > > > is there any special linux driver for the promise controller ? any > > > hints ? > > > >I have the same controller and I have had that problem. You've got two > > hard drives that have been marked down as the bootable drive and I'm not > > just about where LILO is installed. > > > >For example, I had a drive that had Windoze installed on it and when I > >installed LM I installed it and LILO to a different hard drive. Diskdrake > >assumes you know what you're doing and isn't going to go look for other > > hard drives being marked as bootable and this is what leads to the > > conflict you see. > > > >To fix it, boot into rescue mode and run fdisk on the hard drive you don't > >want to be booting from and turn off the bootable partition. > > u sure that that will work ???? > > if i turn off the bootable flag from my first hd (win2k running) then i > wouldnt be able to boot it ???
The bootable flag just lets the BIOS know which hard drive to give control to. It does not effect a partition's ability to boot an OS. > since i boot my os�s with nt loader - i installed lilo in the root > partition of the corresponding drive instead of the > MBR. The Win2000 NT Loader is very tenacious-- it's not going to give up control just because you have LILO installed on another partition. > i think there has to be another solution - there were some postings on deja > that said that there would be a special driver for linux to make it work > with the promise controller - but up to now i wasnt able to find it.... The driver was necessary for 2.2 kernels but the module for running the Promise ATA100 controller is included with 2.4 kernels (including LM8.x). > > --quay > > >Richie > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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