On Saturday 08 March 2003 01:40, Jason Giangrande wrote: > >I rebooted and the machine is hung at "Verifying DMI pool data. It > > sat there like that for 10 minutes. I hit the reset and the same > > thing. It's been like that for an hour now. Is my new drive toast? > > does anyone have any ideas? > > I would suggest you un-plug the hard drive or plug in another one (if > available) to see if the problem still exists. Sometimes, when stuff > like that happen, the MBR (master boot record) of the hard drive gets > confused so if all else fails and you don't get the "Verifying DMA > pool data" error with that hard drive not in your system, you could > try to erase the master boot record. But be warned, if you have data > on the hard drive more than likely it will be inaccessible after you > do this. > > Jason > > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >I've got the new machine built. Leadtek nForce2 based mobo, > > AthlonXP2100 512megs DDR2700... I couldn't get the onboard nic or a > > pci slot nic fired up with my 1.4-rc2 live cd but an rc3 CD boots > > with the gentoo nonet option and dhcpcd eth0 fires it up fine. > > Any way, I started my install and partitioned and formatted the new > > 80 gig drive, then started the steps to make directories and mount > > the partitions. > >First thing I noticed, when I did "mkdir /mnt/gentoo" it told me it > >couldn't create the directory because there already was a > > /mnt/gentoo. How can that be? > >While I was pondering that, the power went out.Yup, the UPS was > > sitting on the dryer in the laundry room charging up.... > > I rebooted and the machine is hung at "Verifying DMI pool data. It > > sat there like that for 10 minutes. I hit the reset and the same > > thing. It's been like that for an hour now. Is my new drive toast? > > does anyone have any ideas?
There's no way to erase the MBR, machine won't boot past initial hardware scan. It doesn't get anywhere near looking at the Gentoo CD. I swapped drives with another drive with Gentoo on it and it boots fine. The drive is fried. Off to CompUSA... -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
