on Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 05:56:01PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I went out and bought a brand spankin' new 120GB hard drive for my > computer, partitioned it appropriately, and put Win2K and Linux on it, > and put GRUB on the MBR. But my old 80GB hard drive still has a bunch > of data on it that I need to get to. > > Thus, I re-installed the old hard drive, set the jumper to the slave > configuration (according to the documentation that came with the drive), > and set the jumper on the 120GB hard drive to the master configuration. > When I turned on the computer, BIOS auto-detected both drives and > assigned master/slave status appropriately. > > GRUB appears normally when I turn on the computer, and I select Linux. > However, Linux is unable to mount the root filesystem as a r/w system, > and sets it as read-only. The whole system fails when it tries to > initiate the system logger. > > I haven't yet tried booting Windows 2000. > > I'm using Red Hat 8.0, and both hard drives are Western Digital. I > referred both to the documentation that came with the drives and the > Western Digital website to figure out the jumper configuration.
WD has separate jumper configurations for: - Master (single disk) - Master (with slave disk) - Slave (with master disk) AFAIK, it is not possible to run WD drives as slave, without a master disk present. Double-check your jumper settings on both the slave *and* the master drives. Yes, I've been bit by this one, it's a PITA. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Verio webhosting? Guaranteed downtime: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,57011,00.html http://www.dowethics.com/r/environment/freedom.html _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
