The message was both a heads up to Tyan users and a shot in the
dark for help. BTW: Anyone know if there's an 'Open Source BIOS' project
underway? I suspect a freeware BIOS would probably get regular updates,
and in general _work properly_. ;-)
Thanks!
--jmg
On Sun, 24 May 1998, Grant R. Guenther wrote:
> J. Maynard Gelinas wrote, concerning a Tyan motherboard:
>
> > Unfortunately, it also seems buggy. My Symbios Logic SCSI
> > controller, with the NCR53C8XX driver, gets recognized after POST and
> > tests for devices on the SCSI chain. But, no matter what setting I use
> > for boot order (SCSI,C,A or C,CDROM,A or what_have_you) the computer
> > intermittantly refuses to attempt to boot off of the SCSI controller. So
> > I'll get a 'INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ANY KEY' when it attempts to
> > boot, and if I press a key repeatedly after a while it will somehow catch
> > that the scsi controller wants to boot my primary disk and launch lilo.
>
> Oddly enough, at my work we have precisely the same symptom on a different
> motherboard, different bios, different SCSI controller and probably a
> different kernel.
>
> In our case: Dell Optiplex with BT-958 SCSI controller and 2.0.32.
> Occasionally, the BT-958 will fail to "install" the boot disk into the
> BIOS - although it does detect it.
>
> I mention this only in case there's some remote connection between the
> two phenomena ...
>
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