Re: OT: BIOS Problem - Thanks

2008-11-18 Thread Thomas H. George
David A. Parker wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: If your slave drive has failed completely, it's possible that your master drive needs to be jumpered as "single" instead of "master" (if it is one of those drives which make that distinction). Sometimes the BIOS will get hung up for a while t

Re: OT: BIOS Problem

2008-11-17 Thread David A. Parker
Thomas H. George wrote: If your slave drive has failed completely, it's possible that your master drive needs to be jumpered as "single" instead of "master" (if it is one of those drives which make that distinction). Sometimes the BIOS will get hung up for a while trying to find a second d

OT: BIOS Problem

2008-11-17 Thread Thomas H. George
Problem: Very slow bootup while grub tries repeatedly to get responses from a dead ide slave drive. If the ide slave drive is disconnected bios apparently spends a long time searching for ide drives and grub loads very slowly but, once loaded, boots the system quickly. If I enter bios at power