Loader hang

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Mon Feb 5 00:57:02 UTC 2007


On Friday 02 February 2007 06:39, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> > Interestingly the hang only occurred when booting the installed version -
> > when booting from the CD it worked perfectly..
>
> That's because loader won't touch hadrdrives when booting from CD.

Hmm, I would expect it to at least enumerate them.
I could be wrong of course :)

> > Anyone seen anything similar? Any suggestions for debugging? :)
>
> Have you tried to boot anything else (Linux, Windows, etc)? Probably,
> the Host adapter's BIOS is broken, so try to update it to the latest
> version.

No I haven't tried booting anything else except DOS.

I just tried updating the BIOS - no luck..

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