On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 8:44 pm, g wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > are you saying that you had both drives on ata100 controller and it was > working. now it has diff layout?
Yes. I have made no change to the physical layout. The drives are where they have always been. I was booting between windows and Mdk 8.2 before I installed 9.0. > it would have to be something you have > brought about. > My feeling exactly, but what? > only other way is to add an ide controller card. > I have no reason to believe that the controller was working before but is not now. > before you wipe drive and reinstall, which may not cure problem, what about > moving slow drive to ata66 controller. as in move drive to 'primary > master'. you could even move both drives to ata66. ata100 will not give > full ability, but you would at least have a diff light on things. > > that is, if it works, then something is wrong with ata100 controller, > or you have a prob with lilo.conf. > > if you do try move, be sure to have a boot disk and change fstab before > you shut down and move drives. > It may come to that. But I'm still convinced it is something that I did that accidentally upset it. Going back to the start. When I installed 9.0 I could boot to 9.0 but not 8.2 (I don't think I tried windows at that point). With JRS's help I eventually sorted it out. I do not have a separate /boot partition. We had to find which partition was booting (i.e. which kernel booting from where). Once we did that, renamed the kernel and initrd files, then copied across the missing pair, renaming them, and all was well. So I breathed a sigh of relief, and booted windows for a quick but overdue job. It didn't boot, and hasn't done since. I think I did something during that period that has caused this. I have lived without windows native on this machine since that install, but as I still have hardware as yet unrecognised I occasionally need windows. At the moment I am borrowing a machine when that's essential. I could, of course, hang on until I get 9.1. I am thinking of making that a clean install of windows and 9.1 on a new large hdd, then perhaps wiping the better of these two disks and reinstalling 9.0 on that. Still, though, I hate not knowing what has caused this. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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