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InitDisk_ / bootdisks won't boot

#1 Post by burt » Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:17 am

Trouble...

My Laptop (HP TX2100) has problems loading a lot of the features on UBCD. None of the bootdisks work and on next to all of them, it hangs after displaying this message:

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(C) Copyright 1995-2006 Pasquale J. Villani and The FreeDOS Project.
All Rights Reserved. This is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO
WARRANTY; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
 - InitDisk_
The only hint i found was this tread, which states that the problem is related to the SATA drives, and advices to emulate IDE on the SATA channels, which my BIOS does not support (and no, there's no update )-: ).

Since the problem appears to affect all bootdisks loaded by MemDisk, i can only assume it is MemDisk having trouble with the SATA drives. Is there a work-around for this?

I did get PING working in UBCD using this code:

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LABEL Ping
  MENU LABEL Ping 
  KERNEL /custom/ping/kernel
  APPEND initrd=/custom/ping/INITRD.GZ 
          vga=normal 
          devfs=nomount pxe 
          ramdisk_size=33000 
          load_ramdisk=1 
          init=/linuxrc prompt_ramdisk=0 
          root=/dev/ram0 rw noapic nolapic lba 
          combined_mode=libata 
          ide0=noprobe nomce
Since it was the only mounted disk i've seen working on my computer so far, i tried to use these settings on the bootdisks as well, but with no succes, and quite frankly i had no idea what i was doing. /-:

(I am running UBCD from a usb stick)

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