DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) is a standalone tool which can boot from CD-R to wipe a hard drive.
-----Original Message----- From: Colin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 11:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo hates my hard drive Phil Sexton wrote: >On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 22:32, Colin wrote: > > >>Well, I finally fixed that annoying kernel panic problem and got >>Gentoo to boot on my computer! >> >>I fixed it by removing the hard drive that I had planned to install >>Gentoo on. The kernel booted perfectly. Whenever I put the hard >>drive back in, though, I get the "Attempted to kill init" kernel >>panic. So I'm still in a quandry. Any guessed as to why Gentoo >>doesn't like my hard drive (Seagate Barracuda ST360021A, 60.0 GB IDE)? >> >> > >Has that drive ever had a Microsoft filesystem on it? I had a drive I >had to zero out before it would partition and format correctly in >Linux. It would cause all sorts of mysterious errors before I zeroed >out the drive. > >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=512 > > I put the three Linux partitions on it and a 1 GB FAT32 at the end 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. -- Colin -- [email protected] mailing list -- [email protected] mailing list
