[Gllug] Re: Rescue CD with HPT37x2 module

Stephen Harker steve at pauken.co.uk
Thu Dec 8 10:02:21 UTC 2005


Jack Bertram wrote:
> * Ken Smith <Kens at kensnet.org> [051208 09:39]:
>> I don't know that Raid controller - if its a PCI card (ie: removeable & not
>> on the MB) rather than trying to haul that machine in to life, would an
>> alternative approach be to move the card and the disks to another machine?
> 
> Good thought, but it's embedded on the Abit KR7A-RAID motherboard.

You should be able to pull the disk out of a Linux box and put it on the 
first IDE channel and boot it up from there. Then you'd have a whole 
distribution to use. I'd expect you can tell the BIOS which to boot from 
first...

Stephen

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