[H-GEN] Re: new system hanging at boot from kernel

[Troy Piggins]

* Sandra Mansell is quoted
* & my replies are inline below :
>
> Troy Piggins wrote:
>> /dev/hdd would be an ide hdd?  but there was nothing plugged in except the
>> cdrom.  And it worked because it was trying to install from it?
>
> /dev/hdd is your secondary slave device, so yes it's booting from that. Are 
> you sure the optical drive is in working order? Is there an option to check 
> the media for errors? Could be bad burns or scratched disks.

For the record, I plugged in a different CDROM and it all worked
fine.  Thanks.  New server up and running.

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