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 ??? since i boot my os´s with nt loader - i installed lilo in the root partition of the corresponding drive instead of the MBR. 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.... --quay >Richie > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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