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Hi gentuxx, |
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As you may have seen in my reply to another helpful person, same disk |
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worked on a different setting (primary slave instead of primary master). |
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perhaps the disk is going bad, although it's only a couple years old. |
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Thanks for your suggestion, |
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Michael |
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On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrote: |
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> michael@×××××××××××××.com wrote: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> I've been using my computer for awhile and decided to upgrade to gentoo |
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>> 2005.1. Since there is nothing important on this system I decide to |
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>> install from scratch. I follow the quickinstall howto and reference the |
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>> installation manual for 2005.1 and my own notes, as I've installed |
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>> perhaps 8 or so gentoo systems. |
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>> I'm using the Universal 2005.1 live CDROM. |
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>> Everything proceeds well, including installing grub, setting up |
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>> grub.conf and running grub-install, and when I'm finished I exit the |
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>> chroot environment, umount my root and boot partitions, and reboot. |
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>> It fails, with the dreaded message " Disk Boot Failure, Insert System |
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>> Disk And Press Enter". |
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>> I boot the live CD again, double check my grub.conf file, run |
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>> grub-install again, check with fdisk that my boot partition is |
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>> bootable, |
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>> and try again. Same result. |
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>> I'm mystified. I've been using this computer for developing systems |
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>> over |
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>> the past few months and have rebooted it many, many times, with no |
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>> difficulty. |
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>> I figure it's failing very early if I'm not even getting into grub. |
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>> Any ideas? Any suggestions for what to test, inspect, try? |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Michael |
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> - From my experience, this is typical of a bad disk. I have a system |
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> that gives the exact same error. Usually, for me, a reboot solves it, |
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> and it loads the OS. But I happen to know that my disk is on it's |
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> last legs. ;-) If you have another disk lying around, or could get |
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> another one, I would try the install, using the same method you used, |
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> and see if you have the same problem. |
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> - -- |
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> gentux |
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> echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' |
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