Very Computer

by **cal90** » Wed, 03 Oct 2001 04:09:00

System has two HDD's and was originally running Win98. Motherboard
blew primary IDE channel so I purchased a Promise FastTrack
controller. Running solely off the Promise controller under Win98
everything worked great - both drives recognized.

Put non-boot HDD (the one without Win98) on motherboard's secondary
master (CDROM on slave) and installed RH7.1. Put original Win98 HDD
on Promise controller.

If I leave the Win98 drive connected, boot fails completely. If I
disconnect the Win98 drive, system boots to Linux. If I disconnect
Linux HDD, boots to Win98. I can't jumper the Win98 or connect it in
any way to the Promise controller that will make the system boot.
Both drives have active primary partitions defined - is this what's
causing my problems?

TIA

c

by **Michael Kell** » Wed, 03 Oct 2001 06:13:42

See if this HOWTO helps any:
http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/promisehowtorh71/

Mike

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by **cal90** » Thu, 04 Oct 2001 01:22:55

> See if this HOWTO helps any:
> http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/promisehowtorh71/

> Mike

Thanks for your reply, Mike

Some things:

1. The second PCI-IDE controller is actually an UltraTrack TX4 - I
keep getting that mixed up with the FastTrack RAID controller.

2. I'm booting Linux off the onboard IDE controller. I tried and tried
to get the recommended method of passing ide= parms to boot. No go.
Very inconsistent with install failures and data corruption resulting
in unusable system. So I just put the boot-Linux drive on the onboard
since that worked and Win98 always worked great on the Promise when it
was the only OS.

3. The Win98 drive is on the Promise controller. I've tried moving it
to different channels and jumpering the drive as slave rather than
master. If the Win98 drive is connected to the Promise contrller,
boot fails completely for any OS.

The Win98 drive has an active partition and so does the Linux drive -
is this confusing BIOS? Why is the Promise controller grabbing boot
first?

Very Computer

dual disk/OS confusion w/Promise controller

dual disk/OS confusion w/Promise controller

dual disk/OS confusion w/Promise controller

dual disk/OS confusion w/Promise controller