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On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Zhang Weiwu wrote: |
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> The original question: |
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> I raise is because I brought an old U5 box, and noticed the box use a |
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> standard IDE slot, so the only HDD I installed (ATA66) could not perform |
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> maximum. Thus, I installed another Promise PDC 20262 IDE expension (or |
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> extending, I am not sure of the English) card and moved the HDD to that card. |
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> The problem is, as later pointed out by Keith M Wesolowski, U5 OBP could not |
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> boot from external IDE device. This way I need to find a way to boot up the |
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> box. Ferris McCormick helped me a lot in finding where is the problem with |
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> his professional skill. |
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> The final way to solve the problem: I installed a small HDD onto the IDE slot |
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> on the mother board, installed SILO on it, let it boot up the OS installed on |
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> the external IDE slot. |
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Actually, this is not a "nasty" solution in my opinion. It looks pretty |
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clean to me. |
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Congratulations. |
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc) |
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