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booting Presario 5330 from an ATA/133 card
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writes Has anyone managed to get a Presario 5330 or similar to boot from a drive connected to an ATA/133 card? Win 2K installs to the drives OK up until the first time it needs to reboot, and I've been round and round the BIOS setup screens, but I just can't find how to get the system to boot from a drive hooked to the ATA/133 card. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks, Brian. Is this a Promise card? The manual for a Promise card instructs you to load the Promise drivers at a very early stage in the install (for WINNT, Win 2K and Windows XP, Win9x is different). How you do it depends upon the type of install. Did you do this? -- Nicholas David Richards - "Oł sont les neiges d'antan?" |
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Checking the obvious:
During POST, have you gone into the controller cards BIOS and set it to bootable? In the Compaqs BIOS (depending on how custom it is) I would set the boot order somthing like this 1) Boot other Devices 2) Boot removable devices 3) boot ATAPI CDROM 4) boot IDE Hard Drive Can you boot off of a cd and read the drive? If yes, look for NTLDR and NT DETECT on the drive connected to the controller. Check the boot.ini file and if it says mulit 0 disk 0 blah blah bla, try changing it to mulit 3 disk 3 or what ever number works. |
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Most likely you cant boot off the card, hence the no "boot other
device" option. I still think that if you can edit the boot.ini file you can get this to work. You have 2 onboard IDE devices and 2 card controlled devices. IDE1 - /dev/hda IDE2 = /dev/hdc, IDE3 (firs card IDE device) - /dev/hde, IDE4 = /dev/hdg. So your boot.ini file should read somthing like mulit(5) disk(5). Simply stated, the boot HD on the controller card is the 5th ide device reckonized by the BIOS. All you really need to do to make this work is put the boot loader on another media. Like you said you can add another HD and put the NTDETECT, NTLDR, and boot.ini files on it and leave the rest of the OS on the HD connected to the controller card. Your BIOS supports USB boot, so get the smallest flash card you can find, and a cheap flash card reader and put the boot loader on that. You can use the NT loader, LILO, grub, etc.. If you dont have a lot of experiance w/ boot loaders, find one called GAG. GAG is a great, low end boot loader thats very easy to configure, if youve never configured a boot loader before. Good Luck |
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