Thanks for all the suggestions here. After trying all, plus a few dreamed up myself I have determined this machine will not boot the WD drive after it has been formatted. I cannot tell you why,and neither can WDC. I set it up with the one Maxtor drive for now and in a few weeks I'll get another of those and try it..
Thanks, Mike On Saturday 26 July 2003 08:34 pm, Douglas Russell wrote: > -----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----- -- Michael W. Holdeman Why keep payin g for windoze?? Powered by Gentoo Linux 1.2 www.gentoo.org Linux Kernel 2.4.22_rc2-gss lowlatency, preemptable Windows Apps thanks to Win4Lin 5.0 www.netraverse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
