Re: Boot order (2)
Well I just disabled the BIOS and it worked... Is this ok to do? yup, i do just the same on my setup - i pretend to the bios that i dont have any ide disk, so that i can boot on my scsi drive. of course, this does not work for people who use a so-called operating system that depends on the bios for their disk access :) but linux is safe *sighs* I love Linux... :-) Dave -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Boot order (2)
Hello Lindsay, have you read my latest good news! :-] BTW thanks alot for all the help on the NIC problem. I really appreciate it :-) I remove all reference to drive C in the bios - Linux finds it anyway. Yep I did it and it worked! :) Set to Only or Master - it will not work as a slave on its own. Mmm the funny thing is it did work with Primary IDE and dip switch as slave. Well BIOS did NOT detected it but good ol' Linux did! :-) Just check with dmesg - look for CHS and check that the figures are correct. Also run cfdisk /dev/hda and check CHS again. If this works you can transfer all the files you like in one go. grin CHS reports the correct figures :-) (dmesg and cfdisk) Mmm what do you mean if that works I can transfer all the files in one go? Oh BTW... :-) I have the boot option set on the partition of the IDE drive... this is not meant (at least for now) to be a bootable HDD. Does it matter that the boot flag is set? Does unsetting it and writing the partition destroys all the data? Thanx. Dave -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Boot order (2)
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, David M wrote: Hi again Well I just disabled the BIOS and it worked... Is this ok to do? I remove all reference to drive C in the bios - Linux finds it anyway. If I only have one IDE drive should I set it to slave or master (I know normally is master) in Linux? If I set it to slave BIOS doesn't even detect it :-) Set to Only or Master - it will not work as a slave on its own. Any consequences of changing these settings? Just check with dmesg - look for CHS and check that the figures are correct. Also run cfdisk /dev/hda and check CHS again. If this works you can transfer all the files you like in one go. grin Lindsay -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
