At 04:41 PM 10/1/1998 -0400, Jeff Miller wrote: >Hi all: > >I have had a problem ever since I installed Debian on my Dell P60 computer. If I cold boot (power on) the computer Linux starts up with no problems. But, if I perform a warm boot (ctrl-alt-del etc.) my hard drive isn't recognized. It is almost as if the drive has been dismounted by the BIOS. The drive is nothing special (Western Digital 540MB) and it is connected directly to the motherboard. Anyone else experience this type of problem? > >TIA > >Jeff Miller > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Not specifically, but I've seen network cards get lost. It's related to Plug&GuessAgain. The BIOS thinks it needs to reassign IRQs (for the HD controller, maybe), but the hardware (HD Controller) never lost it's power or got a reset signal, so it's holding onto the old IRQ. The BIOS sees that IRQ is being used and so assigns a new one to the hardware but the hardware doesn't accept it since it already has one. Or something like that. ================================================ Kent West, Technology Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abilene Christian Univ., Abilene, TX 915-674-2557 FAX: 915.674.6724 Amateur Radio: KC5ENO Debian Linux: Ride the wave with the penguins!