If Ken�s suggestion does not work (I believe it should), check if you�re
using EZ-Bios (software with bios extensions from Western Digital, that
allows old bios to recognize bigger hard drives -- it is NOT
Linux-compatible, only for Win95 or 98 -- [to see if you�re using it,
EZ-Bios shows at boot a message like this: "loading ez-bios extensions"] ).
I ran into that problem when installing Mandrake over the weekend, and found
no solution to it -- or else, now I use hard drive "drawers" to decide which
OS I am going to use, I love that, it�s cool. :-)
Gustavo Viola
> I don't know if it will help but maybe try running your third hard drive
> as the seconday master and the cd as the secondary slave. That works on
> my system here. I have 3 harddrives, 4G, 8G and 11G respectively.
> Except for what I need to boot Linux, which resides low on my primary
> master, the rest resides in various partions on my primary slave.
>
> Ken Wilson
> First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is
> irrelevant
> (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David P.
> > Greenberg
> > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 4:02 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [newbie] newbie-forced to post this in Win95
> >
> >
> > AAARGGGHHH!!! I've successfully set up linux several times in several
> > different distros, and actually started using it. I recently
> > added a new HD
> > and a 40x CD-Rom to my system, and in so doing decided to go for fresh
> > installs on both my Win32 and Linux systems. I now have
> > Windows (OS only) on
> > my 500mb primary master(/hda) and Windows programs on /hdb
> > (6.3 gb quantum
> > bigfoot set as primary slave). For my secondary master which
> > would be /hdc I
> > have the new CD-Rom, and I have a 4.3 gb Western Dig as
> > secondary slave or
> > /hdd. For some reason I get one of the following errors when
> > I try to run
> > the Mandrake 6 install.
> > Can't mount /hdc Invalid argument
> > or
> > no media in /hdc
> > or
> > invalid media.
> > at one point I did manage to get it to see the cd and start
> > the install, but
> > when I got to disk druid, It wouldn't see the hard drive. I
> > tried putting my
> > old CD-Rom drive back in, and now it won't work with that
> > either. Please
> > help, as I really want to get my Linux back!!!!
> > Thanks in advance....
> >
> >
> > David P. Greenberg
> > Bitco Electronics
> > "In Service to the Recording Industry"
> > **The falcon has heard the falconer**
> >
>
>
