LinuxMan wrote:
>
> Hi biil !
>
> Well i guess you got me all wrong... :)
> there is NO hda on my system (or there wasn't , at least till las
> night at 4 am...) :)
> i could not config that damm hd to be master on the primary
> channel...so i installed Linux
> on it as slave.
> The problem started from the 1st time i booted linux after the
> installation.
> Last night (or should i say this morning) i had it (!) and i tried
> once more to config that disk as primary.
> This time it worked :) but linux (as expected) gave me a kernel panic
> on bootup and gave up on me.
> I had to re-install mdk all over again...and i did...
> after doing so , i booted-up , and guess what ?? same thing all over
> again !!! :(
> the disk is now configured as hda and everything is suppose to be
> normal, but i am still getting :
>
> li 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04
> 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04
> 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04
> 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04
>
> all over the screen (when trying to boot normally)
> when booting from fd0 everything is ok...
> i really donno this time..think my boot sector is damaged ?
> This is a 4 months old hard drive !!!
>
> any suggestion's ?
Yes, I have suggestions
FIRST
post the output of
dmesg
SECOND
go into your BIOS and look at the drives. Tell me what the first
through last columns in the table for primary master and primary
slave say, then for secondary master and slave.
then let's see what
cat /etc/lilo.conf
produces.
If all that matches up, you most probably do have a hosed boot
sector. To double check that, try installing mdk with the drive
as /dev/hdc (this works under 7.0 and 7.1 quite nicely)--then we
can tell for sure--ALSO hit f1 at the beginning of the install
and step through text expert and read error messages if any.
Civileme
