I have a problem with the boot sequence on my system.. It's a MSI KT6 Delta motherboard (VIA KT600) The setup is: One IDE disk, primary master. One DVD reader, secondary slave. Adaptec SCSI with tape, no disk. Compaq Smart Array 3200 with a SCSI disk array. I want the boot sequence to be this: 1. Floppy 2. DVD-ROM 3. Compaq SCSI Array As it seems, I can't get this to work, in BIOS only floppy, DVD, HDD-0, Legacy SCSI and the BBS-0 (Broadcom NetXtreme) shows up. So, I tried to set up boot from floppy, disabled every other boot device, but that doesn't work either... I deleted everything on the IDE disk, including the partition table, still boot failed. However, if I disable the on board IDE controllers, the system boots clean and nice from the Compaq Array. Anyone with an idea? Somehow it must be able to set the board to boot from the SCSI array even if there's a IDE device present, right? Any ideas on this?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Anders! (grovel grovel) Just a thought, and maybe my terminology isn't perfect, but have you ever used a bios editor to unlock hidden settings in cmos setup before? ~ I've done this... not for overclocking, btw... but to modify or override unwanted and hidden 'default' behaviors. Could this kind of bigger hammer work in this case? <g> regards, - - Carl - -- ____________________________________________________________________ C. E. Hartung Business Development & Support Services http://www.cehartung.com/ carlh@cehartung.com Dover Foxcroft, Maine, USA Public Key #0x68396713 Reg. Linux User #350527 http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCB5L4usxgymg5ZxMRAqW9AJ4xjctvv7sXKnsNTpFH/FcQl//CmQCeKGAd HLsy2amGgElHpUHa5x86hBg= =S5Jj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Hi Anders! (grovel grovel)
Just a thought, and maybe my terminology isn't perfect, but have you ever used a bios editor to unlock hidden settings in cmos setup before? ~ I've done this... not for overclocking, btw... but to modify or override unwanted and hidden 'default' behaviors. Could this kind of bigger hammer work in this case? <g>
Hiya Carl, It probably would help, the problem is that I know close to nothing about BIOS editing.. I'm not very fond of the idea of ruining a BIOS to achive a non-bootable system that I can't even re-flash to standard... Anders.
On Monday 07 February 2005 18:31, Anders Norrbring wrote:
Hi Anders! (grovel grovel)
Just a thought, and maybe my terminology isn't perfect, but have you ever used a bios editor to unlock hidden settings in cmos setup before? ~ I've done this... not for overclocking, btw... but to modify or override unwanted and hidden 'default' behaviors. Could this kind of bigger hammer work in this case? <g>
Hiya Carl, It probably would help, the problem is that I know close to nothing about BIOS editing.. I'm not very fond of the idea of ruining a BIOS to achive a non-bootable system that I can't even re-flash to standard...
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