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Benj FitzPatrick wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Yasushi,
Which motherboard do you have? My guess would be that you
need to set raid/external controller (every bios seems to have
a different name for this) to the first boot option in your bios.
Benj Fitz
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Thanks for your reply Benj.<br>
We have ASUS A7M266 with athron chip. (4-5 years old) <br>
I see the following boot options:<br>
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1. cdrom<br>
2. hard drive<br>
3. removal device<br>
floppy<br>
ls-120<br>
zip<br>
atapi mo<br>
4. others<br>
scsi<br>
int18 network<br>
intel boot agent<br>
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Thanks,<br>
yasushi<br>
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<pre wrap="">---- Original message ----
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<pre wrap="">Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:21:03 -0500
From: Yasushi Okubo <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:yasushi@cabm.rutgers.edu"><yasushi@cabm.rutgers.edu></a>
Subject: [rhn-users] how to boot from CDROM drive through
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Belkin Ultra ATA/133 PCI card [F5U098]
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<pre wrap="">To: Red Hat Network Users List <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rhn-users@redhat.com"><rhn-users@redhat.com></a>
Hi experts
Originally installed IDE controller on the motehrboad seemed
malfunctioning on one of our desktops, so I added a Belkin
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Ultra ATA/133
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<pre wrap="">PCI card [F5U098] to an open IDE slot. Two slots
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<pre wrap=""><!---->[primary/slave] on the
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<pre wrap="">card are now connected to CDROM and hard drive with IDE cables.
On boot, it does not detect any primary/slave drive, then
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Belkin RAID
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<pre wrap="">controller kicks in by asking if I want to setup RAID device. It
acutally searches primary/slave channel on the new card and
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<pre wrap=""><!---->finds both
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<pre wrap="">CDROM and hard drive before asking RAID setup. After I gets
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<pre wrap=""><!---->out of raid
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<pre wrap="">setup or simply ignores radi setup, the boot agent on
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<pre wrap=""><!---->desktop cannot
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<pre wrap="">detect any devices connected to Belkin PCI card.
I just want to boot from a CDROM drive and install redhat to
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<pre wrap=""><!---->the hard
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<pre wrap="">drive through Belkin card.
Could you advise me how to setup bios or where to look into
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<pre wrap=""><!---->? I
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<pre wrap="">played with DMA/PCI IRQs and device settings on original
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<pre wrap=""><!---->BIOS, but it
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<pre wrap="">did not help at all.
Thanks,
yasushi
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