Hi Frank. The drive should be bootable, as SuSE works just fine with it. Having said that, I use an external boot manager at present. But even this won't work if my BIOS isn't set right. Yeah, my motherboard has 4 on-board IDE channels, permitting a maximum of 8 devices. But I take your point regarding the kernels. Again, going back to SuSE, that does support it directly. As I said in a previous message, if I could only get hold of a kernel for SuSE with Speakup I'd be happy to stick with it. At 06:48 16/09/01 -0400, Frank Carmickle said: >You didn't say you had two controllers. That makes life a bit different. >First off the kernel needs to have support build in for your second >controller. well really your third and fourth controller most likely. I >do believe that slackware has support for the promise controllers built in >to the bare.i boot disk. If not this could be a bit of a problem assuming >that is the kind of controller you have. In either case it is probable >that the drive that is in question is really /dev/hde. > >If you need anymore help just call or write. It could get a little tricky >to set this up and boot off of that drive. Unless your thinking of >booting from a floppy the lilo config to boot this setup will prove to be a >learning experience for you. > >-- > Frank Carmickle >phone: 412 761-9568 >email: frankiec at dryrose.com > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup Kind regards, Gordon Smith. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "mailto:Gordon Smith <gordon at tft-bbs.co.uk" "mailto:Gordon Smith <07932634539 at one2one.net" http://www.tft-bbs.co.uk> ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.co.uk ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.com ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.org.uk ICQ: 23973878 MSN Messenger: gordon at tft-bbs.co.uk Tel.: +44 7932 634 539 Fax.: +44 1642 357 754
