Subject: Install Problem Dual Boot RH72//XP
Greets:
I am trying to install RH 7.2, dual boot with XP Pro. I installed second drive for RH. BIOS sees it; Secondary Slave. As RH install disk loads it sees the drive as hdd and correctly identifies it as Maxtor etc...
As it probes a few lines down it says:
hdd:hdd: irq timeout: status 0x50 {DriveReady SeekComplete}
repeats this a few times, then:
ide1:reset: master error (0x00?}
tries a few more times then goes into the graphical install portion. I get to partition info and select Manual with Disk Druid.
It tells me "The partition table on device hdd was unreadable. To create new partitions it must be initialized."
I say YES, then:
Input/Output error during read on tmp/hdd
I went back into XP and created a partition (FAT32). Same results during RH install. I went back to XP again (getting desperate here) and tried marking it ACTIVE, hoping for I don't know what. Same results.
Any ideas or does it just sound like a bad drive? Its new 20GB.
Sounds like the classic symptoms of a bad drive, or bad controller. Have you tried moving it to a different location? Also, is the drive jumpered to be the slave? Just wondering why you're playing with RH-7.2?
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