[rhn-users] how to boot from CDROM drive through Belkin Ultra ATA/133 PCI card [F5U098]

[Yasushi Okubo]

Benj FitzPatrick wrote:

>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.
We have ASUS A7M266 with athron chip.  (4-5 years old)
I  see the following boot options:

1. cdrom
2. hard drive
3. removal device
    floppy
    ls-120
    zip
    atapi mo
4. others
    scsi
    int18 network
    intel boot agent

Thanks,
yasushi

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>>Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:21:03 -0500
>>From: Yasushi Okubo <yasushi at cabm.rutgers.edu>  
>>Subject: [rhn-users] how to boot from CDROM drive through
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>Belkin Ultra ATA/133 PCI card [F5U098]  
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>>To: Red Hat Network Users List <rhn-users at redhat.com>
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>>Hi experts
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>>Originally installed IDE controller on the motehrboad  seemed 
>>malfunctioning on one of our desktops, so I added a Belkin
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>Ultra ATA/133 
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>>PCI card [F5U098] to an open IDE slot. Two slots
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>[primary/slave] on the 
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>>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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>Belkin RAID  
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>>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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>finds both 
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>>CDROM and hard drive before asking RAID setup.  After I gets
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>out of raid 
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>>setup or simply ignores radi setup,  the boot agent on
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>desktop cannot 
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>>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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>the hard 
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>>drive through Belkin card.
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>>Could you advise me how to setup bios or where to  look into
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>?   I 
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>>played with DMA/PCI IRQs and device settings on original
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>BIOS, but it 
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>>did not help at all.
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>>Thanks,
>>yasushi
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