Anne Wilson wrote:
Yes. I have made no change to the physical layout. The drives are where they have always been. I was booting between windows and Mdk 8.2 before I installed 9.0.
there is a diff with 8.2 and 9.0. what i do not know. something to do with how booting is handled.
if you do try move, be sure to have a boot disk and change fstab before you shut down and move drives.
It may come to that. But I'm still convinced it is something that I did that accidentally upset it.
doing so would insure that your ata100 controller did not die on you.
it may well be something you did, but only you know what that was. ;)
Going back to the start. When I installed 9.0 I could boot to 9.0 but not 8.2
i believe that it has something to do with diff kernels. i put rh 8.0 on a box that had md 8.1 on it and let rh 8.0 write a new lilo. that is where i made a big error. rh 8.0 trashed md 8.1 beyond any recovery.
pair, renaming them, and all was well. So I breathed a sigh of relief, and booted windows for a quick but overdue job. It didn't boot, and hasn't done since.
all of this is with drives on ata100 controller?
I could, of course, hang on until I get 9.1. I am thinking of making that a clean install of windows and 9.1 on a new large hdd, then perhaps wiping the better of these two disks and reinstalling 9.0 on that. Still, though, I hate not knowing what has caused this.
even with a new large drive, i would put oos on it's own drive and put it at hda.
to prove out some of potential causes, if it where my system, i would move drives to hda and hdb, just to set what will happen. it may work, it may crap out. but at this point, what harm would it do and what would you loose but time it takes. it would give deeper insight to what might be happening.
peace out.
tc,hago.
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