I see your message, thanks, but I only wanted to inform about this problem.
Since I don't use anymore hda, I don't need to use tricks to boot. But if
someone wants to include a fix in the distro for other people who may
encounter this problem...
Sylvain OBEGI
Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 8.1 Beta 3
> If you see my previous e-mail regarding this topic, I have been
> successful in triple booting Win98/Win2K/Mdk8.1B3 on the Promise ATA100
> onboard controller - you only need to add the bios info into the
> lilo.conf
>
> I also have a drive connected to the onboard ATA66 controller too.. . .
> no problem!
>
> Cheers,
> R. Fox
>
>
> On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 10:34, Sylvain OBEGI wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Borsenkow Andrej" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 10:15 AM
> > Subject: RE: [Cooker] Mandrake 8.1 Beta 3
> >
> >
> > > > I also have a A7V. There is no problem with Mandrake, except a bug
> > > with
> > > > Lilo
> > > > :
> > > > I use the hd on the Promise to boot (hde), and, if hda is present,
and
> > > > even
> > > > if I select hde as boot device, lilo installs "fine", but at boot I
> > > get a
> > > > "LI" message. And so I have to unplug my hda drive and reinstall
Lilo
> > > (and
> > > > by the way I can't boot on hda via Lilo)
> > > >
> > >
> > > It is not a bug. Lilo relies on BIOS to access boot device. BIOS
> > > normally cannot access more than 4 IDE drives. When you unplug hda I
> > > guess Promise BIOS plays some tricks (like SCSI controllers do) to
allow
> > > BIOS to see this drive.
> >
> > I CAN boot hde with hda connected, there is an option for that in the
Bios,
> > by the way, there is a Promise Bios, like SCSI ones. The problem is that
> > lilo can't install correctly in hde if hda connected.
> >
> > > Why cannot you boot from hda?
> >
> > Because, since if hda is connected at install, lilo doesn't work, so
lilo
> > refused to provide a boot option on hda, coz it's not present (at
install).
> > Not very clear, ok :)
> >
> >
> > Sylvain OBEGI
> > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ICQ : 661913
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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