Hmmm... A couple ideas are rattling around in my head.
First, can you boot a Knoppix Live CD and then read the contents of the 300 GB drive with one of your non-booting Linux installations? This would indicate that the file system is ok and that you could have a bootloader issue. Lilo has to access all of its boot files from the first 1024 cylinders of your hard drive. This may be a problem if you have chosen Lilo.
Second, if you are using GRUB with each of your installations, you may want to check to see if the GRUB versions are the same. An interesting and perhaps helpful technical article on GRUB can be found here:
http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/technical.html
Third, Could it be the way the bootloaders are looking at the hardware? In the BIOS, I am assuming that you are using Linear ( or Logical) Block Addressing. Sometimes, you can have mixed results with the Drive jumper being set to "Cable Select" instead of "Master" or "Master mode with a Slave"
Fourth, perhaps you have an incompatible IDE Interface for the IDE Controller on the drive. Some OSes can compensate for certain incompatiblities with modified drivers. Often, drive manufacturers release firmware updates to resolve compatibility issues. Although I am not familiar with your particular brand of system board, System board manufacturers often provide BIOS updates that can can fix compatibility and performance issues as well. I am making alot of assumptions here, such as the system board having integrated IDE adapters.
Fifth, you mentioned that you replaced the 300 GB IDE drive with a SATA drive and yout problems went away. Certain system boards, especially early implementations of integrated IDE and SATA controllers on the same system board, have had mixed results. Try reconnecting the 300 GB drive on your IDE interface and the go into BIOS and disable the SATA controllers and see if your problem clears up. I have resolved several Boot issues this way.
Good Luck and best wishes!
Thanks,
Jeffrey A. McCright, A+ 816-210-3107 [email protected]
From: James Sissel [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OK, if it is too quiet Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:31:08 -0700 (PDT)
Oh, yes. If I load them they work. If I load CentOS or Ubuntu they don't. I can do it many times back and forth. Trustix and Winblows work, CentOS and Ubunto don't.
Jonathan Hutchins [email protected] wrote: On Monday 26 March 2007 03:07:27 pm James Sissel wrote:
But Winblows 2000 and 2 versions of Trustix Linux worked. Fedora Core 3 also worked with the non-SMP kernel and no graphics (It couldn't detect my graphics card and I didn't have time to play).
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