After 30 minutes or so of "drive not ready" messages, the thing finally
did a successful reset (without me touching anything) and finished booting
into the install program.
Hmmmm....
(original message follows)
The computer has a new drive, and I've swapped the memory (was 16meg,
now 32meg). Condition of memory is unknown - came out of an old
machine - but it passes the POST ok.
RH6.2 installed ok, and I left it sitting at the login prompt. A while
later, I had the "drive not ready for command" messages scrolling up the
screen again. Computer would not respond to CTRL-ALT-DEL. Pressed reset,
and the computer wouldn't boot (just like with the old drive). Cycled
power, it started booting, but now I have a corrupted file system again.
It's been turned off all night, just turned it on, and it won't boot at
all from the hard drive. Boots ok from floppy.
Booting from the floppy (with the install disk) goes ok until it starts
checking for drives, then I get "hda: lost interrupt" over and over
and over.......
P90, Award BIOS v4.50G, on-board IDE & floppy controllers.
Everything related to APM in the BIOS is either 'off' or 'disabled'.
Where do I go now?
-jdr-
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