switching from amd to p3

[Littlefield, Tyler]

got it. thanks for the help. :)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Berry" <sberry at northlc.com>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
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Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 10:19 AM
Subject: RE: switching from amd to p3


> Just one more thing to add Tyler.  Some of the more modern Bios also can 
> use
> f2 to enter the bios setup.
>
> Scott
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Doug Sutherland
> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 12:07 AM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: switching from amd to p3
>
> Tyler, I believe disk boot failure is a BIOS error, not a linux error.
> It can happen if there is no drive, or the drive is not bootable, it
> could also happen if the BIOS boot options are not set properly,
> usually listed as boot priority, you usually want something like
> floppy, cdrom, ide0, ide1 boot priority. If the cables all seem
> okay I the next thing to check would be if the BIOS is seeing
> the drive. On modern BIOS the drives will usually be set to
> auto but if you press F8 it will detect the drives and show you
> them in BIOS (may be a different function key for a different
> BIOS). Confirm that BIOS is seeing the drive, and showing it
> as master, then check the boot priority settings in BIOS to
> make sure IDE0 is in the boot priority list. There are also
> settings in BIOS for the hard drive DMA mode, the lowest
> mode being PIO0, which is original IDE. If still not booting
> try setting that the lowest possible mode. The highest mode
> is probably PIO5 or Ultra DMA, or UDMA 133.
>
> At this point, after checking BIOS, if it sees the drive as
> master, IDE0 is in the boot list, the DMA mode is lowest
> PIO0, and it still won't boot, I would suggest putting it
> back in the original machine and making sure it boots.
>
> If it doesn't boot there I would check the partition table
> using fdisk or cfdisk or similar, check the bootable flag and
> make sure a partition is marked as bootable, and it's the
> correct partition, the one with grub installed. You can do
> this by booting from a linux CD and running fdisk -l or
> cfdisk.
>
> If BIOS on target system is seeing the drive as master and
> the drive will boot in original machine, then I'd say its time
> to try a different drive in target motherboard to make sure
> the IDE controller is working okay.
>
>  -- Doug
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