Actually you shouldn't reinstall just a simple fsck should do. of course I
guess you'll get lots of drive not ready messages but it will eventually
boot and it should work okay though if you reboot you'll expect those
problems. I really think it is some kind of hardware problem I also have
it on one of mine which actually runs FreeBSD it gives lots of them but
eventually boots. I think it is a hardware problem because a SuSE box of
mine that was doing that stopped after I changed the motherboard.
On
Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Jim Reimer wrote:
> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 09:44:45 -0500
> From: Jim Reimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: same old problem - part 2
>
> 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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