Walter Dnes wrote:
Whatever the Universal LiveCD (2004.3, x86) has; I'm currently booting off the CD. I have yet to install Gentoo. I can't even get the CD to boot, so I'm really losing hope. Hey, is that Debian over there...?On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:09:54PM -0500, Colin wrote
I put the three Linux partitions on it and a 1 GB FAT32 at the endIs this the case even if it's not mounted or mentioned in /etc/fstab?
of the disk in Windows with PartitionMagic 8. I'll zero it out,
but it will have to be done in Windows, because I can't boot Linux
with it in.
Yeah, I disconnected the IDE and power cables and the LiveCD boots just fine. I'm just as confused as you are.You mention booting *WITHOUT* that drive in there.
I assume you have another drive that you boot from.
My first disk is for Windows XP and this problem drive will be for Gentoo.
Before blowing away the hard drive, check the jumpers to make sure that its set to "slave" and that your
other boot drive is set to "master". CS ("cable select") is a 3rd
option setting you may sometimes see. It works under Windows, but may
have problems under linux.
/dev/hda (primary master, onboard RAID controller): Windows XP Pro SP2 (Boot disk for Windows) One big 120 GB NTFS partition
/dev/hdc (secondary master, onboard RAID controller):
The problem disk, will be my Gentoo disk
Formatted it as mentioned previously, will zero-fill it tomorrow and partition in Gentoo
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 (primary master, onboard IDE):
Universal LiveCD (2004.3, x86).
***Booting from this disc!***
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 (secondary master, onboard IDE) Just a CD-RW. No real purpose.
/dev/fd0: Ye Olde Floppy Drive
My hard drive jumpers are currently set as cable select. I'll re-install the drive, flip them over to master/master instead of CS/CS, zero-fill my Linux disk and give it another go. If not, then does someone want to trade hard drives?
-- Colin
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