On Saturday 20 October 2007, Les Mikesell wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Many (most?) motherboards only see 2 disks in the boot process, although >>> they may let you select from a larger number of choices which order to >>> try. So you may have trouble using anything higher than hd1 - which >>> again refers to what bios is using, not a particular ide position. And >>> you may have non-bootable disks that have no bios driver at all, but >>> which linux will use normally. >> >> I have been under the impression that if the bios scan found them, they >> were in fact usable, is this incorrect? > >I'm not a bios expert and what I've seen hasn't been consistent enough >to generalize, but in the best circumstances the bios will see a list of >available devices and let you pick the order to try booting them. Since >add-in cards supply their own bios, this may be at the card level or it >may actually see the individual attached devices. I'm not sure how the >rest of the disks are mapped after one starts to boot - or if all >machines do it the same way. > Chuckle. So we are both rowing similar boats, and looking for the sign that says exit and _doesn't_ point straight down. Maybe we'll find out, if somebody ever drains this swamp. :) >-- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) You'll never be the man your mother was!
