Michael, this seems to indicate that there's a problem with your hard disk
partition table or possibly the hard drive itself.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael D. Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 12:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Errors on startup
Sorry, but that did not work. I just got a different error upon startup.
The big
time waster is when it sits there trying to detect the non existent hard
drives.
It takes longer at that step the it takes to completely come up... The only
real
difference in the error was it was unable to find the file instead of saying
it
was unable to find the hard drive. There has to be a setting somewhere
where I
can disable the hard drive search for the two devices... I am completely at
a
loss here. I triple checked my CMOS settings and re-installed RedHat 4
times now
to try to get rid of that. No luck... Any other suggestions? I am willing
to
try anything.
Thanks for quickly responding.
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
> Not sure why it wants to check those two, but if you have a "typical"
> modern PC system, you don't want to limit it to hda; you want hdc as
> well, which will be your CD-ROM drive.
>
> You could presumably just
>
> rm /dev/hdb* /dev/hdd*
>
> if you wanted a crude approach to short-circuiting the bogus drive
> checks. You'd still get an error, presumably, but it ought to be a
> much faster error.
