FW: Install Problem Dual Boot RH72//XP

[Koko1]

I haven't tried moving it yet as Joel suggested.  If the BIOS recognizes the
drive, and RH correctly identified it earlier in the startup (hdd Maxtor
etc.) I thought the controller and disk itself was okay.  It seemed when it
was checking partition tables (before it was even formatted) there was a
problem and I don't know what to do about that, since I then created a
partition and formatted it and had the same results.  I'll try Joel's
suggestion.

I'm using 7.2 because I have the boxed set.  I don't even like RH that much,
but I have it and I want to get familiar enough with Linux to take on LFS.
It seems the best way to learn.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org]On Behalf Of Net Llama!
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 11:49 PM
To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
Subject: Re: FW: Install Problem Dual Boot RH72//XP


On 07/11/03 19:29, Koko1 wrote:

> Subject: Install Problem Dual Boot RH72//XP
>
>
>
> Greets:
>
> I am trying to install RH 7.2, dual boot with XP Pro.  I installed second
> drive for RH.  BIOS sees it; Secondary Slave.  As RH install disk loads it
> sees the drive as hdd and correctly identifies it as Maxtor etc...
>
> As it probes a few lines down it says:
>
> hdd:hdd: irq timeout: status 0x50 {DriveReady SeekComplete}
>
> repeats this a few times, then:
>
> ide1:reset: master error (0x00?}
>
> tries a few more times then goes into the graphical install portion.  I
get
> to partition info and select Manual with Disk Druid.
>
> It tells me "The partition table on device hdd was unreadable.  To create
> new partitions it must be initialized."
>
> I say YES, then:
>
> Input/Output error during read on tmp/hdd
>
>
> I went back into XP and created a partition (FAT32).  Same results during
RH
> install.  I went back to XP again (getting desperate here) and tried
marking
> it ACTIVE, hoping for I don't know what.  Same results.
>
> Any ideas or does it just sound like a bad drive?  Its new 20GB.

Sounds like the classic symptoms of a bad drive, or bad controller.  Have
you tried moving it to a different location?  Also, is the drive jumpered
to be the slave?  Just wondering why you're playing with RH-7.2?


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