[vox-tech] installing suse linux 8.1

[Peter Jay Salzman]

On Sun 11 Apr 04,  2:17 AM, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> said:
> Quoting Jimbo (evesautomotive@charter.net):
> 
> > Found it.
> > It appears that there is some sort of ata/ide config in the bios.  I had to
> > set it to "legacy" from the default of  "enhanced".
> > 
> > I found an article almost mirroring my problem but with another OS
> > http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-009052.htm
> > 
> > I changed it and presto!  I was able to load my suse on another hard drive.
> 
> Very cool, and kudos to Pete for finding that for you.

thanks.  once i saw the words "install another OS on the machine", i
became a man on a mission...  :)

> I'm coming in
> late on this thread, but have a Web page devoted to the SATA (Serial ATA) 
> problem on Linux.  See:  "Serial ATA" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Hardware .
 
holy crap!

i know where i'm going when i purchase my next machine...

pete

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