Re: [newbie] everthing's dead. - please help

2000-03-28 Thread Kirk McElhearn
On 28/03/00 14:57, Mike Fieschko [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: >This indicates (to me) a hardware problem with your Zip drive (or the >Zip disk in the drive?). Could you disconnect the drive or keep the >drive empty on boot up? I don't think the problem is with the drive. IT wor

[newbie] everthing's dead. - please help

2000-03-28 Thread Mike Fieschko
>>> "Kirk" == Kirk McElhearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] Kirk> computer won't boot off the install CD any more (I checked Kirk> the BIOS, it's ok). Then, it won't boot at all, because I Kirk> get the following message: Kirk> hdc: lost interrupt Kirk> over and over.

[newbie] everthing's dead. - please help

2000-03-27 Thread Kirk McElhearn
Well, like an asshole, I figured I could just install things and see what happened... Well, I did. I installed a hack called Aurora, that does nothing more than make the screen look a bit nicer during startup, by giving a graphical front end to the init process. First, this hack makes it so