A few weeks ago Civilme wrote about how it was
especially bad to pair together a Western Digital and
a Maxtor. There were issues with timing and CRC
checking.
I'd recommend searching the older message to find this
post to read the details. This might apply to you.
--- John Wolford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah, here's my thoughts: Don't think about
> installing Mandrake over several drives. I was
> trying
> that for the longest time, wondering WHAT could be
> the problem, until a friend informed me that
> someone he knew went through the same headaches and
> they all went away when he stopped trying to
> span Mandrake across 2 drives. At that point i was
> desperate just to have a working installation
> so i took his advice and kaboom, it worked. Then,
> AFTER i had a working installation, i moved
> things around so my partitions were on the drives i
> wanted. I used a combination of diskdrake and
> editing /etc/fstab to get what i wanted. Another
> piece of advice: try not to move root, it can be
> a hassle. Install on whatever drive you want / to be
> on. The others will move much more easily.
>
> Good luck,
> j
>
>
> --- Dale Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Okay the problem is not resolved yet. I still get
> the cant find root at
> > boot-up,during install it says it is hde6 which is
> what it allways was with
> > 7.2, I did get it to go further by passing the
> following at the promt, linux
> > root=/dev/hda5 ? ? ? ? ? ? HOWEVER, IT GOES TO
> BOOT AND CANT FIND MOST OF THE
> > FOLLOWING DIRECTORIES, /VAR,/ETC AND MOST OTHERS!
> ! ! I re-downloaded 8.0
> > from a differant site,verified md5sums and I am
> still getting the above.Any
> > help would be nice. The system config is as
> follows, two drives,a Western
> > Digital as master, Maxtor as slave, both connected
> to a Promise ATA 100 pci
> > card.Windows ME is the first partition, followed
> by swap,root,var and temp,
> > all on the first drive.This worked with Mandrake
> 7.2 and Redhat 7.1. I don't
> > want to move to Redhat but I am tired of fighting
> with this issue.Can it be a
> > bug with the W-D drive? Maybe the Promise ATA 100
> pci card? Tonight I may try
> > and hook up the drives directly to motherboard but
> I don't know if I want to
> > go this far.Any thoughts?
> >
>
>
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