UBCD seems to boot into FreeDOS for some utilities and Linux for others. None got me anywhere. I haven't got a proper live CD burned yet.
I did try every possible setting for the SATA controller in the BIOS (there are only three, plus 'disabled') and tried using a PCI SATA controller. Didn't see any indication that the PCI card was showing up. The thing boots Vista and runs just fine, so the hardware would seem to be OK. I've got the HC08 programming up and running on another PC, but not the HCS08 stuff, and CodeWarrior is node locked to the dead machine. I already have a fake NIC driver to get it to run on another machine, but that's because I do my Coldfire stuff there. The Coldfire BDM, HCS08 BDM, MON08 pod, and EPROM burner don't play well together when you get them all loaded on the same machine. It'll work for a little while (maybe) and then it'll either get stuck in and endless cycle of licensing errors (for the free P&E software!) or it'll start trashing EPROMs. And soon I'm going to have to make more SR1 end panels, which means getting the CNC milling machine running again. Argh. I think when I get this figured out I'm going to throw a spare drive in the machine and just make a bootable backup image every week or so, in addition to my nightly backups. I've got more stuff burning now, and I might drive back to the office tonight for another try. Thanks, Scott Mohd Hamid Misnan wrote: > > > Scott, > > If you've any Linux live system CD, you might want to try and see if > it could boot up and running.. just to make sure that nothing is wrong > with the whole hardware setup. Another quick one if you don't really > want to go ahead with slipstreaming is by disabling native SATA > support in the BIOS.. some BIOS will let you do this, some not. Have > not playing a lot with PC hardware lately either .. > > Mohd/9w2tpt > > On Sep 15, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Scott Miller wrote: > > > Thanks, I'll give that a try. > > > > But shouldn't I get further than that? With an unsupported RAID > > controller, I'm used to having to hit F6 to load a driver. In this > > case > > I'm not even getting that far. > > > > Scott > >
