Toshiba Laptop IDE drive

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> All
>
>    I have gotten an old Toshiba CDS 420 laptop for a special little project. I
> have taken the hd out and put Linux on it it, Suse 9.2. On the desktop the drive
> boots up ro the consol as required, but on the laptop after the initrd stuff is
> completed the drive and hardware are found and the partitions are reconized
> properly. But when the command to start /dev/hda3 at boot it times out and informs
> me that the drive could not be found. then starts /bin/sh.  Any ideas as how or
> what may be wrong & what I might do next? All pins have to be correct since
> /dev/hda1 is found and linux is uncompressed.

What is the exact error that you're getting?  How did you install SuSE on
this drive?

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