OK, if it is too quiet

[Jeffrey McCright]

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
jmccright at hotmail.com




>From: James Sissel <jimsissel at yahoo.com>
>To: Kclug at kclug.org
>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 <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> 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).
>
>Past tense. "Worked." They don't now, do they?
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