On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:18:26PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote:
>
> The ethernet card I installed is what was causing the problem. How it was
> doing that I haven't figured out. I disabled it in the BIOS, and after that
> there was no problem in booting to Windows. I'm going to have to go through
> my Linux Magazines to see about dual booting otherwise. I always looked at
> those articles from distance, since I never had any intel hardware. Now that
> I do, I see why I didn't. :-)
>
Ever tried MacOS and Linux on a dual-boot Mac?
<snip>
> I also have to find out how to keep that ethernet card from taking over the
> boot process.
>
New ethernet card, or pull the boot prom off the board. Most NICs I've
seen come with a socket for the prom, but have it unpopulated. I'm
guessing that if you simply pull out the prom (carefully, with static
protection) it will work like any other NIC.
Paul
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