Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem (CLOSED)

2012-04-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:01:34 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: I finally fudged things. I set the bios so that it recognized the cdrom and installed Debian Linux. I then rebooted, F2ed to the bios and changed it so that it could find the hard drive. That

Re: Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem (CLOSED)

2012-04-10 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: El 2012-04-08 a las 20:26 -0700, Gary Roach escribió: (resending to the list) On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:08 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely

Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem (CLOSED)

2012-04-09 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-04-08 a las 20:26 -0700, Gary Roach escribió: (resending to the list) On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:08 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The

[OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem

2012-04-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:08 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a long time in that it fails to boot the first time I try. The reason is that it can't find the

Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem

2012-04-08 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:08 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a long time in that it fails to boot the first time I