[SLE] Added disk now no boot
- From: Tom Peters <tpeters@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:22:20 -0600
Go easy on me; pretty Linux ignorant.
I have this old Promise Ultra 100 card that supports 4 ide drives. I stuck it in an empty PCI slot in my P3 running SuSE 9.2 and booted it up, or tried to. The BIOS in the card signs on, finds the maxtor 40gb that's attached, then my RAID controller signs on like it used to, then I get the same old boot menu I always did: Press any key to prevent booting SuSE 9.2 or choose Windows, Floppy, or failsafe.
Problem is, if I try SuSE, I get a screen clear, 1 - 2 flickers from the IDE light (which is monitoring the existing IDE on the motherboard) then nothing. Even if I leave it for 5 - 6 minutes, nada.
I tried changing the jumpering in the new drive so it's an IDE master. Shouldn't make any difference, and it doesn't. New ATA-100 cable out of the bag: same result as the original cable.
BUT.... If I take the drive off the controller, it boots. The BIOS rom on the controller signs on and says that since no drives were found, he's not going to load the BIOS for the controller.
Then SuSE knows there's a Promise FastTrak100/Ultra100 PDC20267 card. It offers to configure it, if I say yes, it jumps into YAST for me, but it only lists the existing RAID controller with no obvious way to add another.
I can't tell if SuSE is bombing because the BIOS is being loaded or because there's a new drive and partition being shoved into the mix. The partition on it is a Windows one. Hmmmm.... if it was FAT32 or NTFS, can Linux read all those? If it couldn't, would it hang on boot?
It's hung pretty bad-- doesn't react to CAPS LOCK anymore, and certainly not Ctrl-Alt-Del or anything else.
I'm stuck with the promise card because I have only 32-bit 5v PCI slots. I took it out of a working machine.
Anyone tell me what to do next? Apart from yank the card and get on with life?
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