Booting from PCI IDE Controller (promise ultra100)

[Gersh]

Hi All,
I have an alternative PCI IDE controller (promise u100)
which I cannot start win98 from:
The drive is identified correctly by the controller and
autoexec and config.sys are processed correctly.
It hangs however when it starts the win98 (win.com)
portion.
the drivers for the card were loaded correctly before
moving the drive onto the new controller.

NB There is not a boot from SCSI option in my
motherboards bios boot order.

Any advice, anyone , please??

[Lil' Dave]

Obviously booting from the hard drive.

Does it boot to safe mode. Hint: press/hold "ctrl" key at the instant that
the bios screen disappears and select safe mode.
"Gersh" > wrote in message
...
> Hi All,
> I have an alternative PCI IDE controller (promise u100)
> which I cannot start win98 from:
> The drive is identified correctly by the controller and
> autoexec and config.sys are processed correctly.
> It hangs however when it starts the win98 (win.com)
> portion.
> the drivers for the card were loaded correctly before
> moving the drive onto the new controller.
>
> NB There is not a boot from SCSI option in my
> motherboards bios boot order.
>
> Any advice, anyone , please??

[jt3]

How did you clone your system files to the new drive, or did you fresh
install? Presumably you are using the Promise controller to access a >127G
hd with 48-bit LBA, and you may have kept your old hd on the mbd controller.
You needed to make the new volume on your new drive bootable, and what did
you use for this? FDISK doesn't work for partitioning a, say, 200G hd down
to 2 smaller ones (<127G) volumes that W98 can use. See www.48bitlba.com.
BING is recommended.

Hope this helps,
Joe
"Gersh" > wrote in message
...
> Hi All,
> I have an alternative PCI IDE controller (promise u100)
> which I cannot start win98 from:
> The drive is identified correctly by the controller and
> autoexec and config.sys are processed correctly.
> It hangs however when it starts the win98 (win.com)
> portion.
> the drivers for the card were loaded correctly before
> moving the drive onto the new controller.
>
> NB There is not a boot from SCSI option in my
> motherboards bios boot order.
>
> Any advice, anyone , please??