I haven't tried moving it yet as Joel suggested. If the BIOS recognizes the drive, and RH correctly identified it earlier in the startup (hdd Maxtor etc.) I thought the controller and disk itself was okay. It seemed when it was checking partition tables (before it was even formatted) there was a problem and I don't know what to do about that, since I then created a partition and formatted it and had the same results. I'll try Joel's suggestion.
I'm using 7.2 because I have the boxed set. I don't even like RH that much, but I have it and I want to get familiar enough with Linux to take on LFS. It seems the best way to learn. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Net Llama! Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 11:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FW: Install Problem Dual Boot RH72//XP On 07/11/03 19:29, Koko1 wrote: > 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? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 8:45pm up 6 days, 5:44, 2 users, load average: 0.87, 0.74, 0.41 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
