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> From: Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Jeroen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: help please
> Date: 09 March 1999 03:00
>
> At 04:50 PM 3/8/99 -0800, Tom Taylor wrote [abridged]:
> >At 12:30 AM 3/9/99 +0100, you wrote:
> >>> >Now, the actual problem is this: I cant boot Linux anymore!! I don't
> >>> >know
> >>> >....
> >>> >Partition check: HDD: and it freeses there
> >>> >after a while
> >>> >Partition check:HDD: HDD timeout waiting for DMA
> >>> >and it's done, I can't do anything anymore.
>
> >>Pri master CD-RW HP 7200i
> >>Pri slave 8x CD-ROM
> >>Sec master Quantum Fireball 4.3G
>
> >From what you say, your only hard disk is secondary master (/dev/hdc in
> Linux terms) but Linux is hanging while trying to check the partition
list
> for HDD, which is Linux for secondary slave. Unless you changed your
drive
> configuration, something is very wrong, either with the BIOS or the
kernel.
> Since we know the BIOS is flaky from the time problems, I'd suspect it's
> displaying other problems as well. So ... I'd suggest you get the battery
> replaced and the BIOS calmed down before you spend a lot of time trying
to
> fix what is likely to be another manifestation of the same problem.
(Unless,
> of course, you've left something out of your reports to us.)
No, sorry this is a typo, the HDD is sec slave
Jeroen
