On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 07:19, David A. Sinck wrote:
> 
> 
> \_ SMTP quoth Craig White on 3/12/2002 00:23 as having spake thusly:
> \_
> \_ Frustrated - can't seem to make this thing workee...
> \_ 
> \_ setup... IDE hard drive is set in bios to be the boot drive - also
> \_ have 2 SCSI controllers (won't boot linux - AHA 131) but will boot
> \_ from floppy disk. All I get is "Unable to load OS" (unless I insert
> \_ floppy and hit a key)
> 
> Perhaps check the floppy contents and see how it differs from the
> drive? 
----
finally got it going about 1AM - had to disable BIOS on AHA-131
firmware. Turned out that even though I would set the boot drive to be
the IDE drive, the SCSI controller would overrule the setting and try to
boot the SCSI drive and of course, fail.

Life is good now.

Craig