[H-GEN] Hard Drive Problems

[Frank Brand]

oPiate wrote:
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> > It might help if you could tell *us* what kind of CD it is... and where
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> The CD is an Acer Atapi IDE
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> > it is (ie. which controller, primary/slave) and what else is sharing
> > that controller.
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> It is a secondary Slave in mode 4 whatever that means. When I installed RH
> before I had no such problems. The main hdd in my system is running windows
> against my will. When I try to install Linux on the other hdd i take the
> windows hdd out incase I do anything nasty.
> 

You seem to have some setup problems here. When you are trying to load
Linux how many HDD's and CD's or other EIDE devices have you connected
and where are they (hda, hdb, hdc or hdd)? Is your CD configured as a
slave (this is unimportant in Windows but can be critical in Linux) ie
is the jumper set foe Slave?
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Frank Brand
E-mail: fbrand at uq.net.au
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