On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 03:12:26PM -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > I amtrying toinstall 1.4_rc4 off the install cd,I think I have now ruined 3 > HD's. > The machine is a Gateway 500S. With an intel 865G chipset. Original 1 HD 40G > Maxtor Fireball 3, I added another WD400BB 40gdrive as slave. When the drive > is new it will boot it up fine, I infact installed all of 1.4 all the way > through the install using hdb1 as a /home onlydrive. Install went fine, but > upon booting the first time the machine hangs. It will not boot again with > the WD drive? No matter what I try the WD will not allow the machine to boot. > I can boot into mynew gentoo system fine as long as I leave the WD drive > unplugged. So I tried another out of the box. It boots the CD fine and ran > fdisk /dev/hdb and partitioned it as hdb1 and made an ext3 out of it. I even > mounted it and wrote to it using the CDbooted system. As soon as I boot again > I'm back to the same problem. It will not boot with the WD drive. > Anyone have any suggestions??
2 suggestions. Have you set the jumpers on the drives to Master/Slave? Don't rely on cable select. Alternatively, plug the drive into the secondary IDE controller, and make it hdc or hdd and see if that helps. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
