Can you please provide a verbose boot with the failing IDE drive somehow? Now that you have it installed, you could just boot from the CD with boot -v, then specify, at the mountroot> prompt, your local hard drive so that you can continue booting and saving the dmesg.
Thanks, Alex On 16 June 2011 08:30, Babu Chaliyath <[email protected]> wrote: > Latest update on this is , I dumped my IDE HDD and CDROM , went with a > SATA HDD and CDROM , it worked without any issue and I just completed > the installation, so time to get my hands dirty, should I expect more > surprises like that ahead? > > But I still wonder what went wrong with IDE? Hope those guys who > maintain the installation and booting can have a look into it. I am > ready to help to replicate and do trial run on this system if anyone > is interested. > > > > Thank you all for replying to my doubts > Regards > Babu >
