Almost right. It is an Abit KT7a-Raid. At 12:19 16/09/01 -0500, Gregory Nowak said: >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 > >_______________________________________________ >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
