For those that aren't aware, the A7V uses the Promise UDMA100 controller, aside from the standard onboard UDMA66 controller. I have my CD ROM drives installed on the UDMA66 controller (Primary Master and Secondary master respectively).

On the UDMA100 Promise controller, I have a removable drive bay installed. I boot multiple operating systems, and therefore keep a separate OS on each drive. In this way, I simply insert the drive I wish to use before starting the computer.


I decided that I wanted to install Slackware Linux v8.0. After inserting a new Quantum Fireball 30GB AS HD, and booting the Slackware 8.0 installation CD, I choose the ata100.i kernel (the one that supports UDMA66 and UDMA100 controllers like the Promise!)

After booting to the prompt, I continued by FDISKing my drive, setting up the partitions, and formatting each using mkfs (mke2fs extension for the ext2 filesystems, and mkswap for the swap partition). For the record, the Quantum attached to the Promise is labelled as hde, so each partition was as follows:
250 meg MSDOS ----> hde1
1.5 GB root / ----> hde2
512 MB SWAP ----> hde3
Extended -----> hde4
10GB /usr -------> hde5
3 GB /opt ------> hde6
5GB /home -----> hde7
500MB /var -----> hde8

I continued by typing 'setup' to start the Slackware 8 installation. Everything went smoothly (performed expert install, etc.) until I got to the setting up LILO portion. LILO DOES NOT INSTALL PROPERLY!! After it says "LILO has encountered errors and did not install", I am able to exit back out! I decided to make a boot disk as well, with LILO on it.


Here's the scenario:

If I don't use the boot disk, I receive:
LI
ONLY THE FIRST TWO BLOODY LETTERS! Someone please tell me why it's not allowing LILO to install properly???

If I use the boot disk, I'm able to boot, but then I receive a KERNEL PANIC somewhere into the initialization phase!

PLEASE, someone help me, because I have installed LINUX before on standard systems (using the onboard IDE controllers), but I have never tried to install it on a system that uses a configuration similar to the ASUS A7V!!


Thanks,

Soul

Nobody can help me??

I've figured out how to map the boot device to expect within LILO to access on the Promise or SCSI boot device on startup. However, I need a utility that will display the Promise boot address so I know which address to map to LILO:

eg. The first BIOS boot device is always 0x80. Usually the second will be 0x81! However, I tried 0x81 for the Promise and it still is not working.

In this way, I need a utility or programs that displays information such as "Boot Device Address"... or something to that effect.


Anyone know of any???

Didn't I see you somewhere ?

Maybe you should find these interesting (search "lilo promise" in google) :

http://atlas.tfh-berlin.de/~oeschtle/lilo_promise.html
http://lists2.suse.com/archive/suse-...-Apr/0378.html


Interesting thing, Promise HD are seen as SCSI from Bios.
I have not the time to try that today. Tell me if any luck

Thanks OldFrog! I'll read up on these links and let you know my results.


Palandri also informed me that the new v22.0 LILO fully supports secondary boot devices such as the Promise controller, without requiring extended advanced configuration information.