[ale] Booting from Promise Ultra133 TX2

John Wells jb at devsea.com
Thu May 13 00:00:38 EDT 2004


John Wells said:
> Danny Cox said:
>> 	There is a kernel option: "Boot off-board chipsets first support"
>> (BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD) if you can manage to build a kernel and get it
>> somehow to boot.  It changes the order in which the IDE chipsets are
>> probed.
>
> Since knoppix can see the drive just fine, I wonder if there is some way
> to boot via a floppy and then load the kernel from the drive.  I don't see
> how this would make a difference, since I can get to grub screen just
> fine, but IANAE...

And the answer is....NO.  This bios has a serious problem with this card. 
Oh well.  Can anyone recommend a relatively cheap MicroATX board that'll
support a 400mhz Celeron and that can handle a 120gb disk?

Thanks!



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