[lug] Bootup install problem

[Justin]

Well this long shot was dead on :)  For some reason or another my 
primary slave ide device was set to "NONE" in the bios. I set it 
to "AUTO" like you said and it worked just like it should. I think I 
would have stumbled upon this eventually but you saved me a lot of 
frustrating time. Thanks again...

Justin

> Justin,
> 
> This is a long shot, but I ran into the same problem on my Abit
> KT7-Raid.  In the BIOS, you can not set the ide devices to CDROM, so I
> didn't think much about it and set it to none (all the other choices
> were for hard drives).  Well, as it turns out, the BIOS then didn't 
even
> look for anything on the 2nd ide channel, so it could, of course, not
> boot from it.  The Linux kernel could care less what the BIOS saw at
> boot time, so it found the CDROM just fine once it was up, which hid 
my
> problem.  As it turns out though, I missed the option to set my bios 
to
> 'auto' for the ide port the cd was on.  Once I did that, the BIOS 
looked
> for a device there, found a CDROM, and all was well.
> 
> Again, it is a long shot, especially if you haven't touched your BIOS
> settings in a while, but this gave me exactly the symptoms you 
describe.
> And you also have an Abit mobo, so I bet the settings are similar.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Tim
> 
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 06:52:07PM -0700, Justin wrote:
> > I'm trying to re-install my workstation linux box but ran into a 
slight 
> > problem. I set the bios on my abit bm6 mobo to boot from the cdrom 
> > (like I've done on previous linux installs) so I could install 
linux. 
> > For some reason it's not even trying to boot from the cdrom though. 
> > I've tried different cdrom drives and different linux cd's with the 
> > same thing. I know this works because I've installed linux on this 
box 
> > before this same way, just for reason it's suddenly not booting 
from 
> > the cdrom now. Anyone have any other idea why the machine wouldn't 
boot 
> > directly from the cdrom like it should? Thanks for any help...
> > 
> > Justin
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