Lance, try reinstalling and this time don't do the HDD optimization. I don't think with a drive that big and a system as efficient as linux that you're going to really need to worry about optimizing, and I suspect that there is a small , but apparently noticable enough hardware conflict going on there. I also suspect that it will all evaporate as soon as you install without optimizing. -- Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** <_||_> in the making of this | ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Lance Dow wrote: > Hi There > > I posted the message below to the list on Saturday. So far, I've had only > one response which, unfortunatly, didn't take me forward in any meaningful > way (thanks anyway Paul). I can't believe no one else knows the answer. > > Can sombody help me out... please? > > Lance > __________________________________________________________ > > Hi Guys > > Finally got 7.1 installed on my new system - Athlon 700, 128MB, 13.6G HDD - > Linux only, no Windows. It all seemed to be going smoothly until it came to > the first re-boot. It reached the point where it says; > > Starting hard drive optimisation for hda [OK] > > then it goes no further. I left it in that state for over an hour and it > never moved. I could hear what sounds like disk accessing at round one > minute intervals but don't see any activity on the HDD light to confirm > this. > > Any ideas where I go from here? How do I go about tracking down what the > problem might be? I created a boot disk during the install and, I suppose, > I could use this to start the system. But I have absolutely no Idea what > I'm looking for! > > One more thing. This message is part of the Interactive Startup (or Setup - > not sure). Is this anything like the setup on Windows where you can step > through the entries in autoexec.bat and config.sys at boot-up, choosing > which drivers etc are loaded? If so, how do I do it under Linux? > > Is there a troubleshooting HOWTO that covers this sort of thing? > > All help gratefully received. > > Regards > > > Lance Dow > > >
