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PostPosted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 7:41 pm 
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I have a few Compaq Despro Small Form Factor 450 PII, Mach64 video, 256mb ram. I added a Promise Controller so I can add a 200gb Western Digital hard drive. I ran KnoppMyth R5A16, manual install, followed instructions, install seemed fine but when it reboots, I get a just a flashing cursor. I tried setting it up to boot from mbr and tried again to boot from partition but I get the same flashing cursor. My hard drive is /dev/hde. root is /dev/hde1 hde5 /swap hde6 /cache hde7 /myth
How can I get it to boot from hard drive?


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Your BIOS needs to support booting from a secondary controller. You need to go into your BIOS and fix things.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 10:10 pm 
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Bios does not have a way for me to change what controller to boot up from. This machine did work with the same controller with a 120gb hard drive booting from a partition. I had to use that drive in another machine.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 6:34 pm 
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This is usually done via boot order specifiers. Any modern BIOS I've seen will do this... Usually by one of two methods:

1) Settings for your First, Second, Third, ... Boot Device includes things like HDD-0 -> HDD-3 and you directly select the drive to boot from

2) Settings for your First, Second, Third, ... Boot Device let you pick the type of device (floppy, cdrom, harddisk) then within those you set a priority.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:10 pm 
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The bios only shows Floppy, Cd-rom, Hard Drive, and Ethernet Controller.


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:29 am 
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Could I boot off a bootable floppy or cd which would take me to my mythtv installation on my 200gb hard drive (/device/hde1) on my Secondary Controller? If so, how would I go about making it?


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:48 pm 
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Possibly, I don''t know if there is any support for creating a boot floppy. Using the install CD may also be a possibility.

BTW - This is a pretty low spec machine for this application. Possibly OK for recording SDTV with a PVR card but playback would be problematic and live TV even ore so. Even with a PVR-350 carrying most of the load of capturing, encoding, decoding, and displaying it's a stretch. For HDTV it's a complete non-starter. As the good old boys from Georgia used to say - "That dog won't hunt".


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I have had some weird, similar, problems on an Asus Radeon-based board.

Basically, it would hang:

Code:
Welcome to the KNOPPOX live Linux-on-CD!
...
 Accessing KNOPPIX CDROM at /dev/hda...


Blatting the Hard Disk (with a RedHat install) got it past this. (it now hangs at (Scanning for Hharddisk partitions and creating /etc/fstab...)[/code]

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