Janis,
Install Linux Mandrake 7.1! It will recognize your Promise Ultra66 card
perfectly.
To my knowledge, Promise only provides a boot diskette for RedHat 6.0. The
Promise boot diskette will *NOT* work with any version of Linux other than
RedHat 6.0. Do *NOT* use the Promise boot disk. The Promise company was
absolutely worthless in helping me install Linux onto a hard drive connected
to a Promise Ultra66 IDE controller card.
You can use any boot manager of your choice. Be sure to install Lilo/grub
to the first sector of the Linux partition. I'm currently using BootMagic
2.0, but XOSL is an even better graphical boot manager (www.xosl.org). The
NT boot manager will also work, but I haven't personally configured the NT
boot manager to work with Linux.
To enable the NT boot manager to work with Linux, I suggest first reading
the HOW-TO written specifically about it. As a second resort, you can pose
the question to the Mandrake mailing list.
Hope that helps,
Matt
From: Jancs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Any comments on Ultra 66 on 7.0 or 7.1?
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:58:33 +0200
Hi, Matt,
At 16:55 00.06.26.ยดรพ +, you wrote:
MDK 7.1 and the Promise Ultra66 finally got married. Installing Mandrake
7.1 onto a hard drive connected to a Promise Ultra66 IDE controller was a
piece of cake.
Did you used boot diskette provided by Promise?
I am a stange kind of Linux user so i do not want the LILO to occupy MBR -
could it be ok? Without Ultra computer worked well enogh in multiboot mode
(hosted by NT bootmanager).
Best regrads - Janis
Jancs
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