Some hard drives take a little longer to initialize or do not gracefully
recover from power outages.
Try shutting off you system fully, then turn it on and make sure that
the BIOS is as it should be. You may find that your IDE controller has
been disabled, etc.
Note: that often this is a sign of imminent hard disk failure and is not
likely to be a Linux issue... (unless you have the UDMA/33/66/100
problem and Seagate drives)...
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Marcia L Waller
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 12:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Primary master hard disk fail
Dear All,
I have had LM8 installed and running for awhile and tonight my screen
went black so I rebooted and got a very unwelcome message during boot
up-Primary master hard disk fail. I was sure I had made a boot disk when
installing LM8 but now of course I cannot find it. I am freaking. I have
no idea what I can do. Does anyone have any suggestions? I have 2 hard
disks. The larger disk which has about 5 gigs is the one in trouble. Any
help will be greatly appreciated. Also, I only have Linux on this
machine.I tried rescuing from the CDrom but I do not know how to use the
rescue. Sincerely, Marcia
