Problem booting from disk

[Tom Wilson]

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 13:31, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:

[snip of tales of woe]
> In a previous message I mentioned that it also balks on booting from the
> previous HD, claiming problems with the ReiserFS partition (which should
> have been fine after a gentle shut down).  This implies a problem with the
> hardware of the motherboard, or the BIOS, to my non-hardware oriented mind.

Not being facetious but have you set the HD jumpers to be the master or
stand-alone?  Make sure the IDE cable is plugged into the mb with the
pins aligned right?  Older motherboards often don't have the guides on
them.  Also, some bioses (IBM's come to mind) keep giving the error
until you enter the bios and exit saving changes.  

Tom Wilson 
McSwain Carpets 
513.771.1400 x124 
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