What motherboard do you have? Is it by any chance an Abit be6-II? If so, then the bare.i slackware boot disk doesn't have built-in support for the hpt366 on-board controllers. Greg On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 11:16:33AM -0100, Gordon Smith wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
