Thanks to all who answered.
In the end it was the specific hard drive that caused this problem. I
happened upon an 8GB drive that still had an old Fedora installation
on it. while it didn't work, with that drive in I had no problems
booting or running grub. Fedora started booting and then died for
numerous hardware reasons. Armed with that info I blew away the
partitions, installed Gentoo from scratch and 3 hours later have a
working Pundit-R sitting atop my TV.
Now, on to build apps and get MythTV working.
cheers,
Mark
On 6/4/05, Michael Kjorling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2005-06-04 11:11 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pri Master: IBM-DPTA-371360 P74IA30A
Ultra-DMA Mode 4, S.M.A.R.T capable and status OK
Pri.Slave: TOSHIBA CDW/DVD SD-R1612 TB02
Ultra-DMA Mode 2
Auto-Detecting USB Mass Storage Devices
00 USB mass storage devices found and configured
Primary Master Hard Disk Error
Press F1 to resume
Since using nodma was what allowed you to boot the installation CD, I
would start off with disabling DMA in the BIOS (and possibly on the
kernel command line, if you are not already doing that) and see if
that makes any difference.
You may also want to double-check to make sure you are not
accidentially using Cable Select on either drive. That made the BIOS
on my system very unhappy at reboot (power cycling was fine, however).
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