Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Grant R. Guenther" <> | | Subject | Re: Tyan 1662D new Award BIOS bugs | | Date | Sun, 24 May 1998 11:36:10 -0400 (EDT) |
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J. Maynard Gelinas wrote, concerning a Tyan motherboard:
> Unfortunately, it also seems buggy. My Symbios Logic SCSI > controller, with the NCR53C8XX driver, gets recognized after POST and > tests for devices on the SCSI chain. But, no matter what setting I use > for boot order (SCSI,C,A or C,CDROM,A or what_have_you) the computer > intermittantly refuses to attempt to boot off of the SCSI controller. So > I'll get a 'INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ANY KEY' when it attempts to > boot, and if I press a key repeatedly after a while it will somehow catch > that the scsi controller wants to boot my primary disk and launch lilo.
Oddly enough, at my work we have precisely the same symptom on a different motherboard, different bios, different SCSI controller and probably a different kernel. In our case: Dell Optiplex with BT-958 SCSI controller and 2.0.32. Occasionally, the BT-958 will fail to "install" the boot disk into the BIOS - although it does detect it.
I mention this only in case there's some remote connection between the two phenomena ...
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