yeah, now that you mentioned it.... once before when I've moved the box, the BIOS complained about HDD being absent. Just opening the cover and pressing the HDD cables in place seemed to make the problem go away!
its too scary.... I'm going to stop at the store first thing to pick up a replacement cable. (better safe, than sorry :) tks, Ashley. On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 23:48, James wrote: > Ashley, > Had you at any time opened up the box and touched/checked the hdd > cables? Why I'm asking this is because I had a simular problem about 2 > years ago with a batch of mobo's that came in. The mobo's were fine but > it seems that about 20 of them had cables that would "loose connectivity" > on one or more wires. We found this out when the box after a normal > shutdown just flat couldn't reboot. IF we performed fsck on a drive as it > seemed to need it would hose the data so bad it wasn't funny. (same error > on FreeBSD and Mandrake 7.1 boxes.) Found the problem when my roomate > stuck his hand in to check a cable durring a boot and "poof" the box > booted fine. All he had done was touch the cable for the ide. We replaced > the ribbon cable and that same box has been serving web pages and other > data for over a year and a half without a hitch. (Note the manufacturer > replaced the cables and 3 drives that were permanently hosed without a > blink.) > > James > > > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 00:18:51 -0500 (EST) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 28 Feb 2002, Ashley Moore wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 15:04, Ashley Moore wrote: > > > > > > thanks for the suggestion. > > > > > > just to verify, i tried once again to boot normally. but the boot > > > process kept getting stuck after 'Ckeck kernel params....' > > > > > > i start in single user... > > > could'nt see anything unusual with any of the startup scripts. so i > > > issued 'init 3' and all came up as normal ! > > > > > > i rechecked logs, etc. nothing to change (as i saw it) so I went ahead > > > and perfromed a shutdown -r and the system came back up as if nothing > > > ever went wrong !!! ?? !!! > > > > > > any light on what might have gone wrong? > > > > Absolutely bizarre. The only thing I can pull out of the air is that > > maybe a drive is not spinning up correctly? > > > > > > oh yeah, dunno if this will help - yesterday i successfully complied > and > > > installed wine-20020122 with reqd dependencies. > > > > > This shouldn't make any difference. > > > > > > > > > > > ------------=_1014968990-17242-1095 > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ashley Moore. (CCNA,CNE,MC$E) Sys.Admin & IT Consultant.
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