[SCore-users-jp] [SCore-users] Hint re installing SCore (or any Linux) on Asus P4B motherboards

[Alex Lambert]

All,

I've had a difficult time installing the SCore client software/bootdisk onto 
a machine I have with an Asus motherboard (P4B). I attempted to replace the 
floppy drive and tried several different disks, to no avail. I spent a week 
working on this and finally found out what was wrong.

The BIOS for the P4B series appears to be badly broken -- it won't boot Linux 
disks at all. Everything I tried was met with "Boot failed", but 98 bootdisks 
worked fine. By luck, I stumbled upon an update to fix this.

The 1010 BIOS available from ASUS's website 
(ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock478/p4b/1010.zip) fixes this issue. Be 
forewarned that you'll need a DOS boot floppy and the AFLASH.EXE utility 
(ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/flash/aflash.exe).

Hope this helps someone out there. I look forward to testing SCore.



Regards,

Alex Lambert
Scalable Computing Laboratory
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