Booting Issue

Hi Folks,

I have a strange booting issue with my K7S5A Pro and an IBM DeskStar
180GXP (80GB) disk drive. I installed my OS (Gentoo Linux) on the disk
and created a valid MBR (compared with other MBRs on working systems),
but for some reason the BIOS does not recognize the MBR and continues
to tell me that there is no system disk.

The BIOS version is 02/06/2002 S -- and as such pretty old, so I
assume that I have to flash the BIOS no matter what. But I'd like to
know if someone has experienced the same issue and if this combination
is known to work _somewhere_.


Regards,
Dennis

On 3 Jan 2004 08:31:27 -0800 In this world we created
(Dennis Hammer) wrote :

>Hi Folks,
>
>I have a strange booting issue with my K7S5A Pro and an IBM DeskStar
>180GXP (80GB) disk drive. I installed my OS (Gentoo Linux) on the disk
>and created a valid MBR (compared with other MBRs on working systems),
>but for some reason the BIOS does not recognize the MBR and continues
>to tell me that there is no system disk.
>
>The BIOS version is 02/06/2002 S -- and as such pretty old, so I
>assume that I have to flash the BIOS no matter what. But I'd like to
>know if someone has experienced the same issue and if this combination
>is known to work _somewhere_.
>
>
>Regards,
>Dennis

Try here,
http://pub140.ezboard.com/bk7s5amotherboardforum
Flash to the latest HoneyX BIOS for the,"Pro" boards.
HTH



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