On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Kuraiken wrote: > Okay, > > I've tried to re-install Venus in the seagate drive which I had a running > (fresh) install of Festen. And...it still does not work. At install time, after > choosing "server" default install, it gives me this error: > > An error occurred while reading the partition table for the block device hda. > The error was input/output error. [retry or skip drive] > > Incidentally, this input/output error was the same cascading errors I wrote > about in the previous mail... > > Is there anymore information that would be useful? Thanks. > > -- > ----------------------------------------- > Kuraiken - Python fanatic. > ----------------------------------------- > Python. Try it. It'll swallow you whole! > ----------------------------------------- > Buggy bios or drive, try disableing the udma support of the board or useng the 5.3 installer. when it stops for the mouse probe change to tty2 and comment out the hdparm stuff in /mnt/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, then continue the install.
