Ben, Your response makes no sense to me. A live CD does not use a hard drive, so why is it even looking for one, much less a slave?
I have no problem with addressing the situation to a wider Debian audience, but I already know how it will go -- contact the live cd group. If you think otherwise, then tell me what the appropriate group is and I'll at least try. Dave, On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:25 -0300, "Ben Armstrong" <sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> wrote: > On 20/03/11 01:05 PM, dave boland wrote: > > I'm very hesitant to make any changes to the system because I dual boot > > (Windows and Mepis) and the last thing I need is more problems (I > > practice the time honored concept of 1 step forward, 2 backwards). > > Since some other livecd's do work, it seems to me that we should be > > looking at Debian to see if this ata2 thing is really necessary and if > > there are boot modes that will take care of the problem. > > Sorry, but unless you furnish evidence to the contrary: > > 1. It is not a Debian Live problem, but a general user problem and as > such should be dealt with through general support channels (e.g. > debian-user mailing list) not here. > > 2. It looks very much like a hardware problem. It does not matter that > you have another OS that works with it, as it looks like the root of the > problem is your drive is jumpered incorrectly, and the fact that it is > jumpered incorrectly is not handled properly by the motherboard, thus > causing Debian issues. > > So unless *your* research shows that some software-only solution will > work, you'll have to bite the bullet, open your case and fix the > incorrectly jumpered drive. > > I'm not trying to be hard on you. I just want you to realize that we > support Debian Live and cannot divert energy into chasing down every > strange hardware problem you might have with Debian. The debian-user > community is much larger, has a broader base of experience, and would > therefore be better able to help. > > Ben > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d862a84.3040...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca > > -- dave boland dbola...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1300653377.23624.1431853...@webmail.messagingengine.com
