On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > virtanen wrote: > > I tried, but if I connect my IBM, the machine doesn't boot at all... > > This sounds pretty much like a hardware failure to me. I had a > problem when one of my harddrives was broken. I always got a drive > error and the PC wouln't boot at all. No matter where I put the HD. > If you have the possibility to check the HD on another PC do it ASAP.
Not necessarily. I picked up a 30G drive a couple of weeks ago, jumped through a hoop to install it as hda with the MBR on hda, everything was fine... until I thought it would be a good idea to put a small DOS partition at the start of the disk. DOS couldn't handle the big HD and left the BIOS in a state where it doesn't recognize the master HD anymore and refuses to boot (but I can still boot from a floppy); I may need to swap hda and hdb if I can't re-convince the BIOS that there is actually a drive hd0. - Bruce
