Problems booting the install CD

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 12:23:27PM -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 11:53:18 -0500 (EST), Steven W. Orr
> <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Aaron, this sounds promising. I have a Tyan K7 Thunder motherboard which
> > has a pair of Adaptec 7899W controllers. The bootable disc is hooked up to
> > one of the two contollers. In addition, there's an IDE drive that's hooked
> > up to the builtin IDE controller. The BIOS is config'd to boot off of
> > SCSI. Do I need to do anything to tell the CDROM to boot off of SCSI?
> > 
> > --
> 
> If an IDE drive is installed the code in my Adaptec SCSI controllers
> would not load its BIOS.  So the solution for you may be to install
> GRUB in the MBR of the IDE drive.
> 
The above is true but that is not the problem that he has. He can't get
the distribution installed. Grub does not show up until after the
install.
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