R. A. L. Carter wrote:
I installed Mandrake 10.1 on a new, "bare metal", PC. That seemed to
go well.
Then I put a Samsung 80 GB ide drive into a NexStar 3 enclosure,
partitioned it as one big partition and formated it as ext3 using the
wizard in Mandrake. When I rebooted with the NexStar plugged into a
USB 2.0 port Konqueror wouldn't start and when I rebooted again KDE
wouldn't start. Also lots of things "failed" at reboot.
After some effort, including erasing the HD in the PC, I managed to
re-install Mandrake 10.1. Now I would like to use the NexStar/Samsung
external drive to move files from my old PC to my new one but I'm
afraid I'll have the same problem as before.
I suspect the problem lies in the way a set up the NexStar/Samsung
drive. When I assembled it I followed the recommendation in the
NexStar manual and left the "General pin setting" as "Master". Should
I have changed it to "Slave"? Also, I didn't change any BIOS
settings: I just hoped Mandrake would auto detect the new drive.
Should I have changed a BIOS setting?
I would appreciate advice.
Robin Carter
Robin
Check in the bios as to the boot sequence. A lot of the newer pc's will
boot to usb devices. Youu may want to change it to boot from the cdrom
/ c configuration. I have used external usb hard drives with Mandrake
10.1 with no problems (samsung drive, set to master, not sure what make
of enclosure though) I know that my computer is set to boot from 'c'
only (if I want to boot from a cdrom, I have to manually go in and
change it, and then I change it back when I am done)
Darcy
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