Re: Boot Failure - Am I toast?

2002-07-30 Thread Irfan Khan
I doubt your hard drive has failed as it is unable to detect the harddisk. You can go to bios and find that whether the hard drive is detected or not. Regards. - Original Message - From: "Doug Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 12:25 PM Subje

Re: Boot Failure - Am I toast?

2002-07-27 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Doug, > It sounds pretty coincidental that this would happen right now... It usually is ;). (Things always happen when you have been doing *something*.) Check your cables. Bye, Leonard. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://l

Re: Boot Failure - Am I toast?

2002-07-27 Thread Doug Lerner
It sounds pretty coincidental that this would happen right now... doug On 7/27/02 9:26 PM, "Jonathan Bartlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is this a common problem with a partitioned Windows/Linux hard disk? > > No, it usually means there's a complete hard-drive failure. > > Jon > > > >>

Re: Boot Failure - Am I toast?

2002-07-27 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
> Is this a common problem with a partitioned Windows/Linux hard disk? No, it usually means there's a complete hard-drive failure. Jon > > doug > > > > ___ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Boot failure after re-install

2000-01-03 Thread Richard KHOO
Sorry to hear that. I have never done this so I may be wrong, but I would now boot from a dos diskette with dos version of fdisk and run "fdisk /mbr" a few times. Then boot into linux and run /sbin/lilo. -- Good luck and best for the new millenium Richard KHOO Guan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Boot Failure

1998-03-18 Thread Joe Ferguson
I had this happen when running the Slackware distribution. The system hung in X and I had no way of bringing the system down gracefully. When I powered up again, I got that message. Since I didn't know too much, the best way I knew of to fix it was to reinstall... But I hope someone else her

Re: Boot Failure

1998-03-18 Thread Jeff S Engelhardt
If anybody can point me to a good solution, I'd appreciate it. We have a pentium 200 MHz running Redhat 5.0 with 120MB RAM. When booting, it seems to come through the list fine until it gets to the following: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 VFS: Cannot open root device 08