-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 27 July 2003 1:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
Yes. They definitley do not sound ruined. Moving one of the drives to the second IDE channel is a good idea anyway so you can access both hard drives simulatenously at full speed. Puggy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Ix4eXYnvgFdTojMRAmKZAKDCApyvLfhXFM2cmU/u/sS8puKzAwCgrsXQ HX3RtJ7T0rQ36WYQrL/zTTU= =7fn6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
