According to Stephen Newey: While burning my CPU.
>
> I've installed here at work a couple of times and the installation never
> worked when the CD-ROM was secondary master, and HDD is primary master,
> unless I had a second HDD as primary slave. However, after installation
> it works fine in it's original setup?? I read somewhere that it can be a
> problem.
Presant day devices are "plug and pray" Linux needs the jumper settings set
correctly, which are not there on most "plug and prey" devices.
That could be your problem, of course at the lilo prompt you can tell
lilo/linux where to locate them.
As i see it HDD cannot be primary master. Would that not be Secondary
slave..
HDA = primary master
HDB = " slave
HDC = Secondary master
HDD = " slave
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> Stephen.
>
> > > I'm not sure if this is your answer, but I've had similar problems
> > > before on certain hardware, if the there's a gap in the IDE chain,
> > i.e.
> > > you've got hda as your hard disk and hdc as you CDROM, Linux can
> > > sometimes have trouble accessing it properly. Try taking out the gap
> > > between devices by putting the CD-ROM as hdb, I'm new at this so I'm
> > not
> > > sure if it's the answer or not. And this is posted from Outlook
> > because
> > > I'm from work.
> >
> > Are you sure ? I never heard about that being a problem.
> >
> > Frank
> >
>
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Regards Richard.
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