[ale] Booting from Promise Ultra133 TX2

[jb at devsea.com (John Wells)]

Robert Story said:
> On Wed, 12 May 2004 08:09:48 -0400 (EDT) John wrote:
> JW> The drive and controller work perfectly if I boot up with
> Knoppix...i.e.,
> JW> I can mount, read and write the partitions.
> JW>
> JW> After a bios update, I was able to select "SCSI" as a boot option and
> it
> JW> now tries to boot from the drive on the promise controller (/dev/hde).
> JW> However, after selecting the proper kernel from grub, the system
> JW> *immediately* resets and goes back to post, as if a power failure.
>

Popped drive and card into a machine with a newer motherboard and it
worked just fine.  The one that is having problems is a Gateway 400c,
which I believe    I've identified accurately as the Intel RC440BX.

I haven't found any updates out there that seem to enable large drive
support, which was why I was trying to get the promise card working.  The
bios only sees the first 65k gigs of this 120GB drive.

Any suggestions, or am I out of luck?

Thanks,
John