[ale] Booting from Promise Ultra133 TX2

[Geoffrey]

John Wells wrote:
> John Wells said:
> 
>>Should the bios have an option to boot from a controller card?  Do I
> 
> need to search for a (probably nonexistant) bios update?  Or is there
> another way?
> 
> Well....found a new bios update, and installed it.  It still won't
> recongize full size of the drive, but now has a "SCSI" option under the
> boot menu.
> 
> Selecting SCSI seems to work (although this is an IDE controller) and I
> get the old familiar grub menu.  However, after selecting the kernel and
> hitting enter to boot, the system instantly resets and goes back to POST.
> 
> I've looked at the grub settings and everything "seems" to be ok...how
> would I go about debugging this problem?  With the reset, I'm not sure how
> to capture any info...

Try passing options to grub as to where the kernel and root fs are.

kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2

Although there's no telling what it's seeing this drive as, generally I 
would expect it to ge /dev/hde, assuming there are 4 on board ide.  You 
might try disabling the on board ide, set the bios to boot from the 
first ide as it should then see the board as the first ide. (I think)

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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