At 21:47 03/21/2004 -0500, Dr. David M. Colburn wrote:
At 18:26 03/21/2004 -0500, Dr. David M. Colburn wrote:
I have just powered up a newly assembled ATX box with a cleanly formatted and SUSE 9 Pro loaded 20g Quantum Fireball Plus LM20.5 HDD as Master and a much-used Maxtor 6E040l0 40g HDD as Slave.
The Quantum is seen in YaST as hda1, etc., the Maxtor hdb1, etc.
I have tried to set up a desktop icon for the Maxtor but get an "in use" error.
I have tried to look at the Maxtor from Konq to no avail.
I do notice that the Grub device map only shows hd0 and fd0 but fail to understand why YaST would see both HDD's even though Grub appears to see only one (not to mention that the Grub device map fails to list either the CD reader or the cdrw device.
Can someone explain these anomalies, and the solution to getting Konq to see my second HDD, please?
I could reverse the cables and the jumpers on the two HDD's and see what happens but I really should be able to see them in either order and access the Maxtor from SuSE 9 Pro booted off the Quantum.
Given that the Quantum is a clean load of SuSE 9 Pro and the Maxtor was set up on an older box I think that the Quantum should be my Master HDD.
-- dmc
my last reply deleted --doug ************************
No, not a Compaq.
I have just tried to boot from the Maxtor (SuSE 9 Pro load on an old PC) and it dumps me to a Bash or Bash-like prompt -- but I get errors when I try to load KDE.
What is the most common short list of reasons, please, that moving a HDD from an older K2 box to a new Athlon box might cause SuSE/KDE to fail to boot properly when it had been working fine?
Thanks!
The boot process on your old drive is trying to access different peripherals than it saw before, and it's getting errors--that's my best guess. You have the same problem with any operating system. That's why they tell you to turn off all your Windows drivers before you make a move like this, and let Windows find the new hardware. I don't know how you do that in Linux, but that still doesn't explain why you can't access the drive when it's set up as a slave. Someone else may know. --doug
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