Thanks to all who answered. In the end it was the specific hard drive that caused this problem. I happened upon an 8GB drive that still had an old Fedora installation on it. while it didn't work, with that drive in I had no problems booting or running grub. Fedora started booting and then died for numerous hardware reasons. Armed with that info I blew away the partitions, installed Gentoo from scratch and 3 hours later have a working Pundit-R sitting atop my TV.
Now, on to build apps and get MythTV working. cheers, Mark On 6/4/05, Michael Kjorling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-06-04 11:11 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Pri Master: IBM-DPTA-371360 P74IA30A > > Ultra-DMA Mode 4, S.M.A.R.T capable and status OK > > Pri.Slave: TOSHIBA CDW/DVD SD-R1612 TB02 > > Ultra-DMA Mode 2 > > Auto-Detecting USB Mass Storage Devices > > 00 USB mass storage devices found and configured > > > > Primary Master Hard Disk Error > > Press F1 to resume > > Since using nodma was what allowed you to boot the installation CD, I > would start off with disabling DMA in the BIOS (and possibly on the > kernel command line, if you are not already doing that) and see if > that makes any difference. > > You may also want to double-check to make sure you are not > accidentially using Cable Select on either drive. That made the BIOS > on my system very unhappy at reboot (power cycling was fine, however). > > -- > Michael Kjörling, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://michael.kjorling.com/ > * ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Against HTML Mail, Proprietary Attachments * > * No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. -*- SM0YBY * > *** Software patents hinder progress - see http://swpat.ffii.org/ *** > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
