Re: [Etherboot-developers] Booting from /dev/hd[eg] via etherboot 5.0.4

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>I'm trying to boot locally from /dev/hd[eg] on my Asus A7V133,
>which carries a Promise PDC20268 as the 3rd and 4th IDE controller.

Are you able to boot from these devices from the BIOS, or from LILO? If
not, then you can't boot it from Etherboot, because Etherboot relies on
the BIOS being able to read the disk. The fact that Linux can read them
is not enough as Linux loads its own drivers. In general with ATAPI
BIOSes one can only rely on being able to boot from hda or hdb. Some
controller BIOSes extend this to hdc and hdd.