Problem booting from disk

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Tom Wilson wrote:
> 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.

Actually, Intel mobos have a BIOS option to 'clear errors', which is
neccesary or you keep getting the same failure, over & over, even if the
problem no longer exists.

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