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Kodama
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 Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 12:29 am Post subject: Bios unable to detect my harddrive |
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EDIT: Problem solved!
It happend during the install of Gentoo. I think I know what I did wrong.
I miss-read the instruction manual and typed:
| Code: | | dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb bs=1K count=1 |
instead of:
| Code: | | dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdbx bs=1K count=1 |
(x being the partion)
The Gentoo installation refused to boot, giving me an seemingly endless loop of this message.
| Code: | hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error}
hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 {SectorIDNotFound} |
Also, the bios could'nt detect the hardrive, but it worked if I'd turn off-on the computer. i.e I could boot the computer without having to disable the harddrive in my bios.
Just to test, I changed my hdb drive to master, and my hda to slave. Now my I can't boot the computer without having to disable the drive in my bios. I can access the drive through my Gentoo liveCD though.
I have tried to run only :
| Code: | | dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda |
and build the partions again, but no change.
Hope I am making sense, its late here 
Help will be very appreciated.
Last edited by Kodama on Tue Feb 04, 2003 4:28 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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GurliGebis
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| Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 11:05 am Post subject: |
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Since the first sector on the harddrive is the MBR, you should try installing grub in the bootsector.
Create a grub bootdisk as written in the installation instructions.
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Kodama
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| Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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I think I have done so. I followed the instructions in the install manual.
hdb1 = boot
hdb2 = swap
hdb3 = root
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grub> root (hd1,0)
grub> setup (hd1)
grub> quit
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I have tried installing LILO too. I'll try again with grub, just to be sure. |
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GurliGebis
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| Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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Well, tell me if it works
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Kodama
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| Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, I have installed grub into the MBR.
Also I tested installing it into the boot partion, and I tested installing lilo to the MBR again.
Still my bios refuse to detect the disk-drive :-/
(But I am able to start with a bootfloppy, but I don't really like having to do that) |
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CodeHacker84
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| Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, sounds a lot like a problem I had with a Maxtor drive in a machine of conglomerate manufacture... 
I fixed these errors by removing the Cylinder Limitation Jumper on the hard disk, which had to be in place for my BIOS to auto-detect the drive . Of course, once the BIOS verified that the drive existed, it was rather pointless to have the CLJ installed, and I'd read an article somewhere that Linux doesn't handle CLJ's very well, so I removed it and those little "read_intr" errors disappeared. Of course, there was still some sort of problem with the drive not being able to mount Read-Write, so I did some digging in the dmesg output and to make a long story short, I ended up passing a "pci=biosirq" option to the kernel at boot as well. Solved all of my problems right there, so now my 120GB file server works just as I planned it to.
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Kodama
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| Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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I enabled the 32 GB limit jumper. And my bios can now detect the HD.
Problem solved I think!
I think I overcomplicated things when I switched master/slave on my harddrives. And disabling the 32 GB limit, becouse I didn't have any spare jumpers.
I am pretty sure I tried autodetecting my disc-drive before I disabled the CLJ, but I guess I didnt :-/ Sorry about that.....
Note to self: Don't try installing Gentoo after midnight. |
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