[ale] Booting from Promise Ultra133 TX2

[Danny Cox]

John,

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 20:47, John Wells wrote:
> Just so happens I have a Promise Ultra133 TX2 card handy, so I popped it
> in.    I can boot up to knoppix and mount the drive just fine now.
> However,  I can't seem to get it to boot from the card, no matter what I
> try.  The bios has boot options for 1rst IDE-HDD, 1rst IDE-HDD, 1rst
> IDE-HDD, 1rst IDE-HDD, and ARMD-HDD, but none of these seem to work.  It
> fails after floppy attempt, which is my second configured boot option.

	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.

	HTH!

-- 
kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.

Danny