Subject: Re: Boot Problems
From: Jim Gribbin (jewelrysupplier@gci.net)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 18:58:40 AKDT
Some things to check.
Watch the bios readout during the boot-up and see if the bios is seeing
the hard-drive.
You may have inadvertently changed the bios and told it there is no
hard-drive.
Have you been putting your big mits inside the box? You may have knocked
loose a power or data cable from the hard-drive. Make sure the cables
are firmly seated.
One of my favorite tricks:)
Did you ever change your scsi id on your scanner? If your id is still 0
or 1 it may be attempting to boot from your scanner. Kind of a
quasi-standard for scsi scanners used to be 6.
Jim Gribbin
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 09:25, Neil Moomey wrote:
>
> Thanks to everyone for the help with my SCSI. I got my scanner working
> great. Now I have a bigger problem. I left my computer on and when I
> got home from work the screen saver was froze and keyboard locked up.
> When I rebooted it could not detect anything on ID 0 which before was
> my CD IDE-SCSI emulation and it prompted me to insert a bootable CD.
> Pressing enter repeats the prompt. Changing the bios to boot off the
> hard drive or floppy has no effect. When I put in the RH 7.2 CD and
> tried to do an upgrade it said I can't upgrade because I have no Linux
> Partions. All my hardware is less than 4 months old from newegg.com.
> I have a MAXTOR 40GB 7200RPM Model # 6L040J2 Any ideas?
>
> Neil
>
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