On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 12:06:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Thanks for the idea. As I've said, I've been using this computer pretty > solidly with no indication, but that's not to say it can't happen. > > Your suggestion made me look at the BIOS boot stage and I notice that my > hard drive is not reported during the BIOS boot. I have no problems > running fdisk or mounting, but when booting the BIOS does not report it. > What could cause this? Perhaps as you suggest?
Can you check the jumpers on the drive? In the old days, there were just "master" and "slave". Now there's a 3rd option "cable select", which may be abbreviated as "CS". It works "automagically" with Windows but it does *NOT* work with linux. If the jumper is set CS, set it to master and try booting from it again. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- [email protected] mailing list
