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Mauricio Tavares
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 Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:30 am Post subject: FAQ: Booting suncpi II off an IDE HD |
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I connected an IDE HD to my sunpciIIpro card. When it boots up, it
recognizes the HD but still will try to boot from an image or will ask
for one if it is not there (or I deleted its Sunpci.ini file). How to
persuade the card to see the HD as the C: drive?
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Dave (from the UK)
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:50 am Post subject: Re: FAQ: Booting suncpi II off an IDE HD |
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Mauricio Tavares wrote:
| Quote: | I connected an IDE HD to my sunpciIIpro card. When it boots up, it
recognizes the HD but still will try to boot from an image or will ask
for one if it is not there (or I deleted its Sunpci.ini file). How to
persuade the card to see the HD as the C: drive?
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I'd be very surprised if it would boot from a disk attached to it. It
was certainly not designed for that - maybe I am wrong.
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Mauricio Tavares
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:07 pm Post subject: Re: FAQ: Booting suncpi II off an IDE HD |
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Dave (from the UK) wrote:
| Quote: | Mauricio Tavares wrote:
I connected an IDE HD to my sunpciIIpro card. When it boots up, it
recognizes the HD but still will try to boot from an image or will ask
for one if it is not there (or I deleted its Sunpci.ini file). How to
persuade the card to see the HD as the C: drive?
I'd be very surprised if it would boot from a disk attached to it. It
was certainly not designed for that - maybe I am wrong.
But, is that a hardware limitation or an issue with the bios.bin or |
cmos.bin files (off /opt/SUNWspci/bios) it supposedly load at boot? As
you can see, the hardware seems to be happy to know about the hard drive:
http://kudria.com/projects/computer/sun/images/SunPCI2pro_01.jpg
http://kudria.com/projects/computer/sun/images/SunPCI2pro_02.jpg
I might slap in XP in it, the usual way, and see if that OS will see the
drive and format it.
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Mauricio raub-kudria-com
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