Re: Bad experience in installation
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 12:47:23PM +0800, jianan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I went through the procedures in the document "Installing Debian
> GNU/Linux 3.0 for Intel X86".
...
> which I can't recall exactly. But it booted up alright. The '#' prompt
> appeared. So I did a "cd /" followed by "ls". The sub-directories were
> displayed OK. Then disaster struck. There was a message about "IDE0
> interrupt...". I heard knocking sound from the harddisk drive. Then
> smell of something burning. I powered down the system. The harddisk,
...
> 3. What is the reason? Is there a bug? After having found the MBR to
> be bigger that the drive size, shouldn't the boot be aborted?
...
> happens. The HD should not be a suspect. This is my slave drive which
> I only used to backup important info from the C drive which is
> definitely more heavily used.
Speaking strictly ad hoc, it sounds like your HD chose a bad time to die. I
don't imagine there's anything weird about a pre-compiled kernel which would
cause any hardware problems (I suppose screwing around with hdparm might
push things but I haven't been there, nor would an installation play with
it).
Grab another HD (use a different brand?). If it happens 3 times in a row,
then... ;-)
Kenward
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because passing civilization along from one generation to the next
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