At 2004-07-22T07:43:52+1200, Slosh wrote:
> This morning upon waking up and firing up my PC I got an error message
> that said something along the lines of invalid boot sector replace
> system disk (sorry I can't remember exactly what - I should've written
> it down) so I stuck in a disk which then told me I had no harddrive.
> On rebooting it then worked fine but I'm wondering if anyone here can
> tell me what it happened and how to stop it happening. It's not the
> sort of thing I need happening when I check my e-mail in the morning
> :P. I should probably also mention this is the second time it's
> happened.
It could be that your drive doesn't spin up in time for the BIOS to
recognize it. Check your BIOS for an IDE delay/timeout. You could try
increasing that.
One of the older Slot-1 based machines I have has a motherboard (Abit
VT6X4) that consistently fails to recognize any IDE devices when it cold
boots. Giving the machine the three fingered saluted "fixes" the
problem until the next cold boot. A friend of mine had the same
motherboard, and it had the same problem.
None of this has much to do with Linux...
Cheers,
-mjg
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