I did it.... and... I don't know how...
I had this image earlier today that if I actually figured out how to get
the darn 60g hd to boot up that I would come here to the lists and
newsgropus where I've been trying to get help and lay out what I did for
any future users of tpx4 mbs trying to install promise ultra cards...
little did I know that I somehow.... had already solved the problem...
I had decided to try one more piece of advice.... and in preparation I was
going to once more copy everything from the old hd to the new in case I'd
managed to pick up anything in the time since I'd last copied files
earlier this week.....
I checked /newroot ... yep, empty, haven't mounted it yet... ok
I mount /dev/hde1 on /newroot and copy over the fstab and lilo.conf files
to temporary locations in / figuring that I'm going to wipe out /dev/hde1
and recopy everything over.... but I want to save the work I've been doing
on those two files...
I unmount /dev/hde1 from /newroot in preparation to reformat that
partition so I can recopy everything over...
I do mke2fs /dev/hde1
mke2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
/dev/hde1 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!
I'm scratching my head.... I do a df (checks disk free, also lists mounted
partions)
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hde1 1441552 1122572 245752 83% /
/dev/hde9 17341684 1851088 14609684 12% /space
/dev/hde6 961352 121060 791456 14% /var
/dev/hde5 4806048 248096 4313816 6% /home
ooookay... um..... somehow this morning when I flipped my computer on,
bleeary-eyed.... ready to hunt for more solutions to this 'problem' (which
I did for about 4 hours today :) my computer somehow decided to do what
I've been trying to get it to do for a week.... boot off the 60g hd on the
promise ultra card.
last I knew my bios was still telling it to look at ide drives first....
I ... haven't got a floppy boot disk in the boot drive....
my old hd is still in the drawer....
I... have no idea how it happened....
Oh well :)
-Alice
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