Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!
I have had one experience somewhat like yours. I failed with Redhat and
Debian. I had a hardware problem in the IDE controller. I moved my harddisk
onto the second controller and told the BIOS to look there for the boot disk.
That cured it.
Is the disk bad? Did the system ever have windows on it? If so can you still
boot into windows?
Is the controller bad? Try the secondary controller like I mentioned.
There are floppy based distributions like Tom's Root-Boot which will boot form
floppy and let you run diagnostics on the disk.
This is a very hard problem to tackle remotely. I got member of my LUG to come
over and check out my machine when I had the problem. On the mailing list
everybody just kept talking about cylinder, head, and sector counts.
Mike
> I'd like to apologize for sending out the same question again, but =
> nothing thus far has worked. Here is my problem, in detail: I have =
> attempted to install RedHat, TurboLinux, and now I'm on Debian. None of =
> these have I been able to install. On every single one of them, as I am =
> doing ANYTHING requiring finding the hard drive, it tells me that there =
> is no hard drive. This is the error message that I get from Debian:
>
> No Hard Disk!
> No hard disk drives could be found. Make sure they are cabled correctly =
> before
> the system's started. You may have to change driver settings at the =
> boot,... or
> load a driver.
>
> I've gotten similar error messages from the other Linux's... I have =
> a 13.5 GB hard drive and it is already partitioned for Linux. What can =
> I do? All I want to do is get the thing installed, and I can't even do =
> that... someone please help me!
>
> =20
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