ToddAndMargo:
Just found this on their web site:
"***Don't support CMOS or MS-DOS"
Even if it did not arrive dead, it would have still
required the OS to boot. Lesson learned.
From what I'd read, that ought to be the case with any PCI-E based
card. Apparently the slots aren't dealt with early enough (they
certainly can't be if they require drivers). Although that doesn't
make sense with other things - a graphics card can show a pre-boot
screen, for instance (there's obviously some built-in functionality,
even if it's more basic than post-boot).
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uname -rsvp
Linux 3.10.0-1160.108.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 25 16:17:31 UTC 2024 x86_64
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