unbootable hard disk

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Hi Kirk,

Lilo never executes. I have a 5 second timeout specified and a
control-G placed in a boot message, but there is not sign that
lilo ever gets run.

As for the kernel options, I am using the stock speakup.i kernel
from the Slackware 8.1 distribution which seems to have those
choices included on other systems, but I can check the config
file to see for sure.

As for raid hardware, I don't remember seeing anything about that
in the specs, and I sure don't need any raid hardware, but that
too I will check out.

The kernel by the way is 2.4.18.

Thanks for the ideas. Hope you are getting along okay.

Chuck

On 18 Jan 2003, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> Hi Chuck:  Boy frustrating and confusing.  I can't tell you what it is
> but here's some more data to collect which may help resolve the
> problem.  First of all lilo.  Can you hit a shift key after the boot
> up beep and get a boot prompt using the hard drive?  This test is to
> test if infact it is seeing the drive at all?
>
> It almost sounds like an addressing problem between linear block
> addressing and the older style.  Is lba mode turned on in the advanced
> bios settings?
>
> What do you have compiled into your kernel?  Is dma and udma used by
> default when available compiled in?
>
> Is there raid hardware on the new mother board?  I have heard of folks
> having problems with raid hardware but nothing specific.
>
> Well, that's it for now.  Check those out and see what you have.
>
>   Kirk
>
>

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