On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:10:12PM -0800, Stephen Keller wrote: > (I apologize if this post is breaking any etiquette or anything -- I > haven't had time to really lurk as I'm excited about trying to get Debian > installed). > > My setup is as follows: > > I'm using an Asus A7V motherboard with an on-board ATA100 controller. I > have two hard drives hooked up: one on the primary ATA100 controller, one > on the standard IDE controller (both are set as masters and are by > themselves -- the CD-ROM is on the secondary IDE controller by itself). > > I want to install Debian on the standard IDE drive, leaving Win98 on my > ATA100 drive. The problem is that the fdisk program that ran during the > install (which I aborted) only recognized the standard drive. This would > be fine by me (I don't need access to the ATA100 drive while in Debian) > except that I'm worried about how I'll be able to dual-boot using LILO this > way. > > Any thoughts? Am I just worrying over nothing? > > Thanks in advance for any replies, > > Stephen Keller
I recently purchased the ASUS A7V133 board also, though I do not currently use the ATA100/RAID controller I am able to boot and get it recognized with the kernel patch provided by www.linux-ide.org. Compile in support for the Promise controller. Debian also has a kernel-image-2.2.17-ide deb that should work. Try: 1. Install debian on the standard IDE drive. 2. Either patch and build the kernel yourself (www.linux-ide.org) or apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.17-ide. 3. Add to lilo.conf other=/dev/hde1 label=win 4. Run lilo as root 5. Reboot Should work. Good luck. Kevin
