In our original post, we referred to a boot CD from Weaknees that had all the necessary Linux and MFS utilities and SATA drivers in one tidy package.

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Interrupting the reboot process only long enough to change the initial boot device in BIOS from CD-ROM to disk, I impatiently watched Linux boot, waiting for the login prompt to appear.

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