Re: Second try--can someone interpret these install boot messages?
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Curt Daugaard wrote:
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: hd: controller still busy
: hda: reset timed out: status=0xff { Busy DriveReady WriteFault
: SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
: hda: reset timed out: error=0xff { BadSector UncorrectableError
: SectorIdNotFound DriveStatusError TrackZeroNotFound
: AddrMarkNotFound }, CHS=65535/15/255, Sector=0
Drive looks toasted. However ...
: The weird thing: the CHS numbers don't match either what CMOS says
: (under MSD in DOS) or what I pass to the kernel at the boot
: prompt, i.e. hd=1010,12,55. (The drive is a WD Caviar 340 MB.)
Try passing the geometry at the boot prompt:
hda=1010,12,55
The "help" on the boot floppy is wrong, you can't say "hd=..."; you must
say hda, hdb, or whatever.
We intsalled on a Tandy machine the other dau that refused to work at
all unless we passed the drive's geometry with "hda=..." and also
specified "hdb=none"
You should get the Bootprompt-HOWTO. It addresses many problems of this
type.
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Nathan Norman
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