Originally to: Christopher Swope Re: Strange Boot behavior By: Christopher Swope to All on Thu Aug 21 2003 07:09 pm
> I am currently having trouble getting my computer to boot. I > recently decided to install a larger, faster, hard drive. Since this > hard drive was larger and faster, I decided that I wanted to make it > my master drive, and make my old drive my slave. I took the old hard > drive out, and installed Red Hat Linux 8.0. I then reconnected the > old drive, transferred files, etc. By making the drive master and slave... did you by chance change the jumpers? Also, on newer systems, they no longer need the jumper, they go by cable select... which means that if you have this sety, the drive is jumpered to the cable select mode, so drive a is pluged into the slave connection it then becomes slave... etc... Just the first round of questions... :) > The problem is that when the new drive is connected, I never get the > grub display screen. The BIOS executes appropriately, and then the > computer just sits there, like it is waiting for something. When the > old drive is not connected, the computer boots fine, however. Even > if the old drive is turned off in the BIOS Setup, if it is connected, > I have this problem. This specifically sounds like a jumper problem... In your systems BIOS, using escape, etc. so you can see when the system boots, does it see the drives? Cause I have the feeling you have one drive set to master, and the other set for cable select... or maybe its also set to master... Which means neither drive will show up in BIOS when booting... which means that neither drive will show up when they are both plugged in. This is even more confirmed when you say that you can plug in the old drive and it boots fine, and the same with the new drive... On the instructions on top of the drive, it normally shows where the jumpers should be placed in different configurations... If your system supports cable select and you "Have" one of those specific cables... make sure you put the drives on the specific connection, ie. Master or Slave... and make sure the "Jumpers" are set to cable select. If you do not have a cable select cable <they are marked, and or identified by having the word "Master" and Slave imprinted next to that specific connection... and as a last resort, the cable has a little tiny hole in one of the connections... you'll have to closely inspect the entire cable to find it... but if it doesn't, it is the old standard cable... which means you specifically have to set the jumpers to make one the Master and the other Slave... Hope that helps... Sniper Killed In Action BBS SysOp telnet://kia.zapto.org ftp://kia.zapto.org nntp://kia.zapto.org:120 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
