Disk-Disk
Hello Debians:
I've got a little problem. I've got two computers, one has Win95, AWE32,
NEC 40x, 32 meg ram. The other has ... 8 meg ram and Debian. Ok, gotta
get Debian up and running before it gets the goodies. Anyway, I pulled
the HD from the other and put it in the one so I could boot Debian and
log onto the web and ftp some pkg's. Didn't work.
I removed the HD from one, installed the HD from the other, setup the
BIOS on boot, reboot, get errors. During boot I can read the HD stats as
the boot accesses the HD but after, I guess when the floppy is supposed
to hand over control, it says "hda busy, hda1 not ready, hda not
available.
Ok, this usually tells me to check into what I've set wrong. I check
several times and nothing is set wrong. But, both HD's were in the one
computer running together with DOS. So it should not be having a
problem. Install the HD back into the other computer and Debian boots
sweet from the HD.
Anybody got any ideas what is wrong? Quick summary: two HD's are in the
same computer working fine. One HD is removed and installed in another
computer, Debian is installed from floppies. the HD is then reinstalled
into the original computer by itself, alone, no other HD's, and it won't
work. Won't boot on the HD, boot from floppy, can't access HD.
I'd really appreciate any help I can get. I really want to get Debian
running so I can solve a lot of my MS problems.
Thanks.
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