On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Michael J. Maravillo wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 07:10:02PM +0800, Orlando Andico wrote:
> > - Promise UDMA66 controller (vs Highpoint HPT366 on Soyo) -- Linux
> > can boot from the Promise, but not from the HPT366
>
> I just checked the current Hedrick patch, Linux won't still boot
> on HPT366. This may sound silly but with a boot-floppy I would
> still be able to boot the system and still have Linux on UDMA66,
> right? Just want to make sure before I get myself a Soyo
> board...
For me the booting/nonbooting is a nonissue.. because my hard drive is too
large for LILO to handle (3400+ cylinders at 255 "heads" and 63
"sectors"). So I can't use LILO to boot Windoze. However Windoze has no
problems booting from a 1024+ cylinder partition, so I default to Windoze
boot (BootGUI=0 to drop to an MSDOG prompt) and use LOADLIN to bring Linux
up..
You can use that option instead of a clunky boot disk..
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