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[ale] Booting from Promise Ultra133 TX2
- Subject: [ale] Booting from Promise Ultra133 TX2
- From: jb at devsea.com (John Wells)
- Date: Wed May 12 22:03:01 2004
- In-reply-to: <1084397156.17854.45.camel@pip>
- References: <[email protected]> <1084397156.17854.45.camel@pip>
Danny Cox said:
> There is a kernel option: "Boot off-board chipsets first support"
> (BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD) if you can manage to build a kernel and get it
> somehow to boot. It changes the order in which the IDE chipsets are
> probed.
Since knoppix can see the drive just fine, I wonder if there is some way
to boot via a floppy and then load the kernel from the drive. I don't see
how this would make a difference, since I can get to grub screen just
fine, but IANAE...