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@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- ======================================================================= Remember -- only 10% of anything can be in the top 10%. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
