From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 9 13:15:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-206-88-224.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.88.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1784337B8E1 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:15:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA04514; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:19:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200006092019.NAA04514@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Nicole Harrington." Cc: wc.bulte@chello.nl, FreeBSD hackers list Subject: Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. BAD ASUS Story In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jun 2000 13:11:10 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 13:19:34 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Sad to say.. I have another bad experience with the NEW asus K7A MB. It will > not allow a Mylex AccellRaid 150 to break out of the bootup sequence to > be configured. :( Try putting "SCSI" above anything else in the "boot order" menu. I've been trying for some time now to work out how these stupid menus are sorted, and how they determine what constitutes "SCSI" as opposed to eg. an int19 device. I fear that it's not very deterministic. 8( > Ad that to the new BIOS that won't allow keyboardless reboots :( Bitch to ASUS about this, I guess. 8( -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message