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Unfortunately I don't use Knoppix or Grub, so no help there.

The only other possibility I can think of is that some BIOS settings you 
used prior to the Update have been altered, or are no longer offered.

Good fortune,

Courtney



John Wells wrote:

> Courtney Thomas said:
> 
>>Not sure I understand your problem, but I run a couple of Promise
>>controllers and all I do is select SCSI for my priority boot option in
>>the system BIOS and up she boots.
>>
>>I should add that I am required to have a drive carrier inserted into
>>both slots of the cabinet front, i.e. not actually plugged into the
>>card's channels, for Promise to detect any drive at all.
>>
>>HTH
>>
>>
> 
> To summarize my current problem:
> 
> The drive and controller work perfectly if I boot up with Knoppix...i.e.,
> I can mount, read and write the partitions.
> 
> After a bios update, I was able to select "SCSI" as a boot option and it
> now tries to boot from the drive on the promise controller (/dev/hde). 
> However, after selecting the proper kernel from grub, the system
> *immediately* resets and goes back to post, as if a power failure.
> 
> I've tried a number of different options via grub and none seem to work. 
> I found a couple of posts on usenet that suggest passing an
> ide0=0xnnn,0xnnn option to the kernel, where the two hex values are found
> by lspci.  I booted up into knoppix and got those values, but no dice. 
> Still a reset.
> 
> I'm not sure at this point whether this is a simple grub misconfiguration
> or a problem with bios<->card interaction.
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 
> John
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