David Haller wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Basil Chupin wrote: [..]
This situation has never happened to me with any make of HD. Is there something in the latest HDs which cannot be handled by the BIOS which, in my case, is some 5 years old? Or is it that the latest kernels are not capable of handling older BIOSes?
Can't imagine that 2.6.x can't handle that. Considering how much old HW is still supported by them. Or at least by Alsa. If I'm not mistaken, the support for ancient SB or Adlib and other Cards, even my "exotic" Mozart/mad16 card with an OTI Chip is still there ;)
I agree, afterall I *can* install MS6 on the same computer but with all the other sets of HDs I have (eg, have it now running on a set of 80GB Seagates of the 2003 vintage). But when I install it on the new Seagates, it installs; however, on the first boot to complete the installation I get an error message, for example, "GRUB Loading stage2, Read Error" or "....Loading Stage1.5 Error 18". I have checked and rechecked the HDs with all sorts of "check HD for errors" applications including the ones from Seagate; low level formatted the HDs etc. All tests show that there is nothing wrong with the HDs. And yet, I cannot install oS on them. On the other hand, Kubuntu is alright (including the daily build of 9.10). But oS - zilch :'( . I have to look closely at what has been stated so far in the thread, "Boot Magic", in this forum. I have a feeling that my answer may lie there. BC -- Great Man reaches complete understanding of the main issues; Petty Man reaches complete understanding of the minute details." Confucius -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org