Which BOOTDSK for IDE HD and IDE CDROM?

by Robinson David Paul » Tue, 22 Nov 1994 12:15:13

Which boot disk should I use with a IDE harddisk, an IDE CDROM
(Matsushita compatible) and Sound Blaster (not Pro).?

I tried sbpcd.gz and that seems to work, but when it tests for scsi
it hangs. There is some message that if it hangs I can use a LILO
boot command to fix it when I reboot, but I don't understand when
to punch in this command.

Can someone please help?

Thanks,
David

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1. Dell Dimension + IDE HD + IDE CDROM + 2940 SCSI = PROBLEM???

Folks:

I'm desperate. I just bought a Dell Dimension 90MHz Pentium, configured as
follows:

1 IDE hard drive - mastered off primary controller
1 Mitsumi IDE CD-ROM - mastered off secondary controller
Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller - id 7
1 2.1GB Conner SCSI drive - id 0

Red Hat Linux 2.0 (2940-nonet.img boot image).

I've tried every conceivable LILO option, and I can't get the machine
to recognize the CD-ROM. It picks up the SCSI and IDE hard drives
beautifully, though.

One person who responded to my email said that he thought the problem was that
the IDE controllers on Dell motherboards were flaky... or maybe just flaky
under Linux. This strikes me as rather unbelievable... especially since
it works beautifully under Windows 95.

Is ANYONE out there using a Dell for Linux, with IDE???

Does ANYONE have $0.02 to throw into this issue?
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