Excuse me, if I may? >From my experiences with H/D's, just recently, first open the case and do a re-seat on the connectors to that drive including the DATA cable, if this makes NO change try changing the Power connectors, use a different one. This was an experience I had with my two WD H/D's and all was well again.
'd' On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 12:14, Kevin Brouelette wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I had to attempt to reinstall 8.0 on a machine that had it working before. Looks > > like i > installed too much junk and the x server crashed badly amongst other things. > > > > Here's the problem. > > > > I get to the part where the partitions are to be formated and the installation > > crashes > after it comes to the end of formating the last partition. > > > > Basically nothing will install, i have tried a few different os's. > > > > I might have messed up my disk by fdisking it with a win 95 disk and formating, or > > my > mbr is messed up. > > > > Any ideas ? > > > > Marek > > Hello, > Depending on the hard drive brand you can go the their site and get a software to > create a > bootable > floppy that will run diagnostics on the drive to see if it's bad. If it tests good > then > you may have something > else going on with your hardware. > Another thing you can try is booting the install media and type 'linux text' and > press > enter > to do a text install. On machines where the GUI installer won't run this can help. > If it > does > break on the install, press 'ctrl-alt-F4' to see any kernel messages that may give > you a > clue. > As a last resort, boot the install media and type 'linux rescue' and hit enter a few > times > to get to a > prompt. You can completly wipe the drive with the following command [assuming your > drive > is hda] > > cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda > > and wait for the process to finish. This will blow away all partitions/mbr etc. > Reboot > the install > media and try to install 8.0 again [It will say you need to initialize the drive, say > 'yes'] > > Those are my few ideas and I hope that is helpful. > > Kevin Brouelette, RHCE > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
