On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Ron Johnson<ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote: > On 2009-08-03 09:48, Timothy Wu wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Sylvain Le Gall <gil...@debian.org> wrote: >> >>> i7 920, motherboard Asus P6T, 4 hard drive (640GB WD, 2 x 160GB Seagate, >>> 32 GB SSD OCZ core v2), 12G RAM. >>> >>> A horizontal cursor flashes means nothing to me... If you succeed >>> installing you should be OK with hard drive. Give more information >>> (kernel version should appear un GRUB menu e.g., do you use IDE/SATA or >>> (fake) RAID for install, what hard drive layout did you choose when >>> installing...) >>> >> >> >> The same horizontal bar appears when successfully booting the Ubuntu live >> CD, though it quickly disappeared. My guess is that it's part of the >> normal >> booting process. >> >> Oh yeah, this is an important detail: grub which was installed on MBR >> didn't >> even appear. It seemed to get stuck right after the self tests. I am not >> sure what version of kernel, but I downloaded from AMD64 version of Ubuntu >> and Debian just today. > > Maybe your BIOS is configured to look at the wrong HDD. That's a very easy > mistake to make, especially if all your drives are the same make/model. > > -- > Scooty Puff, Sr > The Doom-Bringer > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > >
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