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From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>
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Subject: Re: Problems with IDE on GA-7VAXP motherboard
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:13:21 +0000 (UTC)
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misty-@charter.net writes:

>I believe I have nailed the problem to the wall. Your talk about the
>bios misdetecting the cable got me to thinking - I hadn't actually been
>able to see what the bios said it was configuring the disks attached to
>since lilo's menu came up microseconds later.

Put your Boot Sequence on "Floppy --> Anything else" and format a floppy
with just plain DOS. :-)

Works for me every time. 

	Regards
		Henning


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