From: "Scott Berry" <sberry@northlc.com>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: RE: switching from amd to p3
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:19:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <009701c7b0fb$4d3fb890$9501a8c0@yellobow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00a501c7b09d$51aaca90$ab00a8c0@tenstac>
Just one more thing to add Tyler. Some of the more modern Bios also can use
f2 to enter the bios setup.
Scott
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From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Doug Sutherland
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 12:07 AM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: switching from amd to p3
Tyler, I believe disk boot failure is a BIOS error, not a linux error.
It can happen if there is no drive, or the drive is not bootable, it
could also happen if the BIOS boot options are not set properly,
usually listed as boot priority, you usually want something like
floppy, cdrom, ide0, ide1 boot priority. If the cables all seem
okay I the next thing to check would be if the BIOS is seeing
the drive. On modern BIOS the drives will usually be set to
auto but if you press F8 it will detect the drives and show you
them in BIOS (may be a different function key for a different
BIOS). Confirm that BIOS is seeing the drive, and showing it
as master, then check the boot priority settings in BIOS to
make sure IDE0 is in the boot priority list. There are also
settings in BIOS for the hard drive DMA mode, the lowest
mode being PIO0, which is original IDE. If still not booting
try setting that the lowest possible mode. The highest mode
is probably PIO5 or Ultra DMA, or UDMA 133.
At this point, after checking BIOS, if it sees the drive as
master, IDE0 is in the boot list, the DMA mode is lowest
PIO0, and it still won't boot, I would suggest putting it
back in the original machine and making sure it boots.
If it doesn't boot there I would check the partition table
using fdisk or cfdisk or similar, check the bootable flag and
make sure a partition is marked as bootable, and it's the
correct partition, the one with grub installed. You can do
this by booting from a linux CD and running fdisk -l or
cfdisk.
If BIOS on target system is seeing the drive as master and
the drive will boot in original machine, then I'd say its time
to try a different drive in target motherboard to make sure
the IDE controller is working okay.
-- Doug
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