On 3/2/06, Jim Patterson <jim_patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kam Leo wrote: > > >On 3/1/06, Jim Patterson <jim_patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >>am using > >>DFI K8T800 IP0-ALF motherboard > >>Award BIOS v 6.00 PG > >>with ST340014A > >> > >>After installing linux it just hang like it can't see the hard drive. > >>Went into the BIOS and tried adjusted boot order from CDROM 2nd HD0 > >>changed to 1st HD0 then HD1 and it still hangs. > >> > >>Went into linux rescue and reinstalled grub to hd(0,0). Boot is on > >>/dev/hda1. > >>Still hangs. > >> > >>Tried to reinstall again and still no luck. > >> > >>I am now trying to make a bootdisk and must not be doing this correctly. > >> > >>I use a rescue disk and chroot /mnt/sysimage > >>nfs mount another system and then go to that partition and try to run > >>mkbootdisk --iso > >>but it seems that whatever parameters that I put in don't work. > >>I am trying to create an iso image that would boot my system since it > >>seems to refuse to boot from HD. I have done this before in day of old > >>with floppies and just left the floppy in there and whenever the system > >>rebooted it worked fine. > >>If you have an idea of why it may not be booting using the HD, I'd be > >>interested in that also. > >> > >> > >> > > > >Please provide additional hard drive info, i.e. master/slave/cs, > >shares cable with CD-ROM, partitioning, etc. > > > > > > > 40 Gig Seagate connected as master on IDE0 > /boot 125MB > / LVM 38 GB > CDROM connected as slave on IDE0 > Some CDROM drives can cause problems when they share the same channel as the hard drive. Try moving the CDROM to IDE1.
