On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Tom Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 13:31, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: > > [snip of tales of woe] > > In a previous message I mentioned that it also balks on booting from the > > previous HD, claiming problems with the ReiserFS partition (which should > > have been fine after a gentle shut down). This implies a problem with the > > hardware of the motherboard, or the BIOS, to my non-hardware oriented mind. > > Not being facetious but have you set the HD jumpers to be the master or > stand-alone? Make sure the IDE cable is plugged into the mb with the > pins aligned right? Older motherboards often don't have the guides on > them. Also, some bioses (IBM's come to mind) keep giving the error > until you enter the bios and exit saving changes.
Actually, Intel mobos have a BIOS option to 'clear errors', which is neccesary or you keep getting the same failure, over & over, even if the problem no longer exists. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
