I tried installing debian and now my box won't boot with the second hard drive connected.
Late last year I attempted to install Debian 3.0R1. I booted off the cd, told it to boot the default kernel, it started booting, and on the second screen it freezes on something involving the hard drives. I rebooted and tried the other boot options (vanilla, compact, then idepci). When i tried idepci it didn't even get to the second screen. Irritated at the whole thing I decided to give up and try later, so I pull out the cd and restart the box, but it wouldn't start. No beep, no post, just a blank screen. I cracked open the case and fiddled until I found out that the problem was the second drive (slave on the secondary channel). If I disconnected that drive I was fine. It was an old 2 GB so I figured it had died and just tossed it aside. I didn't have enough space on my primary drive, so linux had to wait. Last weekend I bought a shiny new Seagate 160GB barracuda and installed it as my new primary, putting my old primary as the slave on the first ide channel. I figured I'd try linux again since I had all this free space, and it happened again. I tried the different boot options and then the box wouldn't boot. If I unplug the power connector to the second drive, the box starts. The first time I thought it was the drive, but when the second died (40GB less than a year old) I started to think something else was going on. Has anyone ever heard of something like this? And does anyone have any idea how to troubleshoot a drive that seems to prevent the box from booting. My specs: Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo Athlon 1100 256 mb PC2100 Plextor CD-RW (Master on Channel 2) Seagate Barracuda 160GB ATA100(Master on Channel 1) Western Digital 40GB ATA100(was master on Channel 1 the first time, was slave on channel 1 when it died) And an old 2GB Western Digital that was the slave on channel 2 until it died in my first attempt. And a bunch of other stuff that I doubt is relevant, and is depressingly outdated. Thanks, Jason __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
