Michael Haan schreef: > I was able to boot the factory HD (and, I think, possibly the CD too) > with SuSE. But I took that drive when I built another Gentoo box, so > I replaced it with another drive I had laying around. >
And what comes to my mind on hearing this is ".... jumpers?" The short version of why I'm thinking this basically has to do with myself never remembering how drives "I just had laying around" are jumpered before plunking them into a box. The long version involves Dell and their custom everything, which could quite possibly require, for example, that drives are jumpered cable select in order to be recognized by their BIOS. $DEITY knows.... I hope that they don't have and require a hidden, custom boot sector for the drive to be bootable at all on the machine. Anyway, just an idea, as I've seen systems fail to boot without some partitions marked bootable, but never that the system won't even *try* before failing. So it seems to me that the problem lies prior to looking for a bootable partition (and possibly not finding one), and that's either hardware or BIOS, afaik. HTH, Holly -- [email protected] mailing list
