RE: a few things

RE: a few things

[Holmes, Steve]

I have got a machine at home where two IDE drives are involved.  The 40
megger I have in there boots fine, the original 425 megger boots OK in there
when I had it installed, but the 2.5 gigger does not!  Lilo hangs after
putting 3 or four characters on the screen.  That's why I tried booting with
the 40 meg drive and hung the 2.5 gig on /dev/hdc; that process worked fine
til I tried using 2.4 kernel.  Now I get "interrupt lost" over and over.  I
may consider repartitioning the 2.5 gig drive and see what happens there.
The ide.txt file suggested issues possibly with jumper settings.  I messed
around with jumper settings for several hours last night and came up with no
new answers at all!  The sooner I can get away from those jumpers, the much
better off I'll be <sigh>.

-----Original Message-----
From: Buddy Brannan [mailto:davros@ycardz.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:25 AM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: a few things


Hi,

I don't think the hard disk size is the problem. Lilo has worked
around that issue by now, I believe.

However, here's a thought. At least, it happened to me once. Check
your motherboard's CMOS settings. If you have a virus detection in
your CMOS (built-in, not software like Mcafee), disable it, because it
thinks lilo is a boot sector virus. Confused the hell out of me!
Anyway, once that's done...well...that should help. BTW, lilo should
work fine...I know nothing about grub.
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two drives

[Kirk Wood]

First a note that it will help seperate problems if you place your own
with a different subject matter.

I would guess that your second drive has an issue with the partition
table not being written properly. This is not uncommon at all. I would 
start by using macroslop's fdisk utility to delete all partitions and 
create a new one. Then use the command "fdisk /mbr" four or five times. 
After this is done, you should be able to delete the partition and do 
whatever with the drive.

Part of the problem is the ms leaves part of the partition table
blank. But alas, it is not always blank. Then another utility fails to
understand what is going on. Some of the data will remain arround and can
cause systems to hang. One thing m$ did, was to just blast through without
regard to what is already there. Thus it does make for a good tool to
remove errent data in the partition table.

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Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net

The mind is like a parachute; it works much better when open.
If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out.

RE: a few things

[Janina Sajka]

I would think that partitioning can solve this. Simply create a small 
partition at the beginning of the disk for /. I should think 250 Mb would 
be plenty. The rest can go elsewhere.

Here's how my IBM Thinkpad is configured:

hda1 linux 250 Mb
hda2 linux hibernation-partition
hda3 FAT Windows98 about 1.7 Gb
hda5 linux /home about 8 Gb
hda6 linux /usr about 2.7 Gb
hda7 linux-swap about 127 Mb
hda8 FAT 2 Gb
hda9 FAT about 2Gb
hda10 FAT about 2Gb

 On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Holmes, 
Steve 
wrote:

> I have got a machine at home where two IDE drives are involved.  The 40
> megger I have in there boots fine, the original 425 megger boots OK in there
> when I had it installed, but the 2.5 gigger does not!  Lilo hangs after
> putting 3 or four characters on the screen.  That's why I tried booting with
> the 40 meg drive and hung the 2.5 gig on /dev/hdc; that process worked fine
> til I tried using 2.4 kernel.  Now I get "interrupt lost" over and over.  I
> may consider repartitioning the 2.5 gig drive and see what happens there.
> The ide.txt file suggested issues possibly with jumper settings.  I messed
> around with jumper settings for several hours last night and came up with no
> new answers at all!  The sooner I can get away from those jumpers, the much
> better off I'll be <sigh>.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buddy Brannan [mailto:davros@ycardz.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:25 AM
> To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: a few things
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't think the hard disk size is the problem. Lilo has worked
> around that issue by now, I believe.
> 
> However, here's a thought. At least, it happened to me once. Check
> your motherboard's CMOS settings. If you have a virus detection in
> your CMOS (built-in, not software like Mcafee), disable it, because it
> thinks lilo is a boot sector virus. Confused the hell out of me!
> Anyway, once that's done...well...that should help. BTW, lilo should
> work fine...I know nothing about grub.
> 

-- 
	
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