[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? 

G'day Sandra, thanks for replying.

I had assumed it is because it /is/ reading the cd to get the boot menu.  I
haven't used that cdrom much because the old server was running fine for so
long.  I could try another I guess.

> Is there an option to check the media for errors? Could be bad burns or
> scratched disks.

Because I had tried the old hdd to boot from, and 2 different boot cd's I had
assumed it wasn't bad media.

> Do you have a live cd you can try booting from instead?

I'll try tonight, although the gentoo cd I tried is a live cd IIRC.

> Other than that I have no idea sorry. Everything I've tried just works, but
> then I'm yet to attempt an installation with only sata hard drives plugged
> in.

Thanks for your suggestions Sandra.

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Troy Piggins