--- Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 14:52 -0700, Antonio Olivares > wrote: > > I do not know, why but this machine only has KDE, > and it was working > > fine. Suddenly the weird messages starting > appearing and I tried to > > open k3b and it hung. There were no devices found > /dev/hdc > > and/or /dev/hdd since there are two drives one > DVD/+R-R+RW-RW and a cd > > +r. I could not even boot live linux cd's when > before there were no > > problems. > > The last sentence points to it being a problem with > your hardware. > "Booting" a CD has nothing to do with an OS on your > hard drive. > > I'd try: > > Carefully going through your BIOS settings. > Swapping the power connector to your DVD for an > unused one. > Swapping the ribbon lead to the DVD for a new one. > Removing the plug-in cards and re-inserting them. > Likewise, firmly > pressing any socketed chips into their sockets. > Swapping the DVD-ROM. > Swapping the power supply. > Suspecting the motherboard, itself. > > If you move the box around, you can walk cards out > of their sockets. > Most cases aren't that rigid, some are so poor you > can twist a board > until you crack it. And if you've been plugging and > unplugging hardware > without taking anti-static precautions, that may > lead to hardware > failure, and *not* instantly. > > -- > (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case > that's > important to the thread.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the > mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Following your advice, I could boot into a linux live again. One of the drives is failing while the other was not connected all the way. Linux version 2.6.20 (root@slax) (gcc version 3.4.6) #2 SMP Wed Feb 7 17:26:47 G MT 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: sanitize start sanitize end copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 000000000009fc00 end: 000000000009 fc00 type: 1 copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM copy_e820_map() start: 000000000009fc00 size: 0000000000000400 end: 00000000000a 0000 type: 2 copy_e820_map() start: 00000000000f0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 000000000010 0000 type: 2 copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000100000 size: 0000000017ef0000 end: 0000000017ff 0000 type: 1 copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM copy_e820_map() start: 0000000017ff0000 size: 0000000000003000 end: 0000000017ff 3000 type: 4 copy_e820_map() start: 0000000017ff3000 size: 000000000000d000 end: 000000001800 0000 type: 3 copy_e820_map() start: 00000000ffff0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 000000010000 0000 type: 2 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) ......... much more stuff here ........ hdc: DVD DC 16X8X5, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: RW-241040, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ......... much more stuff here ........ hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) loading up k3b also freeses and thus points to a bad drive. One line from dmesg in slax makes me wonder, it does not show up on Fedora's dmesg pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:0b.0: state=3, current state=5 pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:0b.0: state=3, current state=5 Thanks for helping out, Antonio ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367
