On 4/20/06, Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Richard Fish wrote:
>
> > No. both grub and lilo work through the system BIOS. Neither can
> > 'see' things not provided through the system BIOS.
>
> Are you absolutely sure about lilo?
Checking the source and the README in the source of 22.7.1 makes
Richard Fish wrote:
No. both grub and lilo work through the system BIOS. Neither can
'see' things not provided through the system BIOS.
Are you absolutely sure about lilo?
lilo used bios for disk sector read, but I think is not using
anymore (quite a long time). Thanks to that you can have
/b
On 4/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I'm not using GRUB, but I think that the way GRUB
> reads disks has very little (if anything) common with linux.
> Not only it gives different names to disk-partitions, grub
> is like "mini-OS", which uses its own routines. It can be
"Christopher E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am able to get into the system with the current setup that is the
> strange thing, I am NOT using the liveCD any more, I am booting using
> GRUB, it loads the kernel and then it prompts me for a root block
Well, I'm not using GRUB, but I think that t
On 4/20/06, Christopher E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am able to get into the system with the current setup that is the
> strange thing, I am NOT using the liveCD any more, I am booting using
> GRUB, it loads the kernel and then it prompts me for a root block
> device and then I enter /dev/sda6
Hello Jarry,
I am able to get into the system with the current setup that is the
strange thing, I am NOT using the liveCD any more, I am booting using
GRUB, it loads the kernel and then it prompts me for a root block
device and then I enter /dev/sda6 <--- this is my sata drive and when
I do this
"Christopher E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the motherboard is a Asus K8V Delux SE
I had a similar problem with Asus A8V, sata disk not recognised.
Later I found out that southbridge (VT8251) was not supported...
On your mobo there is VIA VT8237 southbridge, check if this is
supported by kernel
sorry if you are geting this twice as I have also posted to the amd64 list
Hello All,
I figure I will also give this information to this list as I was asked
some questions from the amd list.
Frist part is this is not a live cd, it is booting off of the hard drive.
Next thing is all of the stuff
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