On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 04:11:48PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Sun, 16 Feb 2003 01:28:18PM -0500, sean finney insinuated: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:47:25PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > My computer has been on a downward spiral for a while now[1], but > > > i've been too busy to deal with it. Now it won't even go into > > > single-user mode. It just hangs at the boot prompt. Says, > > > "Loading linux ...." and then prints anywhere from one to ten .'s > > > before hanging. > > > > > > It's not the hard drive -- I replaced it and did a clean install. > > > > > > It's not the memory -- I have new 256M in there. > > > > > > The motherboard?? I'm clueless. > > > > given that you've basically replaced everything else, i would guess > > that it is something on your motherboard. > > blech. > > > if i were forced to be more specific, i'd guess your ide controller. > > what's that?
It's the chip that talks to your IDE disk drives. > > if your cd drive is on a different ide chain, can you boot from > > that? > > is an IDE chain the big cable of plugs that i plug my drives into? Yes, basically; that and the motherboard socket it plugs into. > would a differenc IDE chain be a different cable? A different cable, plugged into the other socket on the motherboard. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
