Bry Melvin schreef:

>OK thanks for all the attempts guys...but this has
>segued into a confused mess.
>
>
>Let me restate the Problem
>
>computer=p1
>card AHA2940UW
>  
>
What bios (the aha2940UW)?

>Hard disk for boot 50 pin SCSI 1.2G
>
>Card and bios recognize each other card etc have
>unique IRQs
>IDE was ORIGINALLY disabled
>
>Warp3 found the drive formatted it and did the install
>up untill he reboot.
>Reboot to graphical install portion failed. Blinking
>cursor 
>  
>
At what stage? After the loading of the basedev= thinghies or even prior 
to that?

>SCSI bios loaded showed as drive C Bios assigned it an
>IRQ etc...but just sat there staring at me.
>
>  
>
You do mean the scsi bios was loaded and the mobo (bios) assigned an IRQ 
to the aha-2940Uw, right?

>TO finish the install I had to dig out an old Ide
>drive repartition it and put boot manager on it
>pointing to the scsi drive which did in fact install
>Warp 3 as it should have.
>
>  
>
Basically, you could boot from IDE but not from SCSI.
Has the mobe an option to boot from scsi first?

>I?m going to redo this again when I have time as I?m
>curious why it doesn?t work.
>
>Incidently linux wouldn?t finish it?s install on the
>same system either.
>
>  
>
How many partitions are there on that scsi disk (included the BM)?

>again I?ll first check to make sure I haven?t exceeded
>the first 1023 cylinders.  I?ve gotten used to not
>having to worry about that.
>
>  
>
Not likely (if not impossible) to get byond the 1024 cylinder on a 1.2 
Giga disk.

-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris



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