On Saturday 20 March 2004 10:31 pm, Aron Smith wrote:
> On Saturday 20 March 2004 03:27 pm, bascule wrote:
> > it would be interesting to know the results of putting the gateway hard
> > drive in a 'normal' machine and putting a 'normal' hard drive in the
> > gateway machine
>
> Two screwed-up Machines?
>
The Gateway HDD works great in a normal machine. In fact to clear matters
up a bit ether of the 2 hard drives suppled by gateway will work fine in the
gateway machine. I can do a standard ML installation with NO problems at all
what so ever. But after the installation when the machine starts to reboot it
hangs at the Gateway splash screen where it says to hit F2 to enter setup. It
does not even go to the LILO boot loader screen. At that point F2 will not
work and the machine will not proceed with booting up. if I power down and
attempt to reboot again I can access the BIOS by hitting F1 instead of F2. F1
will take me to an other screen where I can then get to the BIOS settings.
When I do get to the BIOS settings and do some checking I find that the hard
drive is undetected. It detects NO primary master NO primary slave, It does
detect the CD drive as a secondary master. If I remove the HDD and put it in
an other machine the other machine will boot into Linux with no problems at
all. If I then Reformat the drive using Maxblast and a win 98 floppy then
reinstall the HDD in the Gateway machine the gateway machine will be able to
detect it correctly and load windoze back on it and run just fine, but if ML
is loaded after the installation when I go to reboot it is the same old thing
the Gateway machine is no longer able to detect the HDD.
I would still assume that the BIOS in any machine would detect A drive from
information stored on the PC board of the drive and not from information
stored on the disk. Am I wrong about this? The behavior of this machine seems
abnormal at best and possibly a deliberate attempt to prevent the
installation of any non microshaft operating system.
I am going to try to contact tech support at Intel, the folks that made this
board for gateway and get some further details.
Marc
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