Booting problem

[Karl Larsen]

Mark Haney wrote:
> Keith Powell wrote:
>
>   
>> Thank you for your help, Mark.
>>
>> As I have said to Karl, things work properly with Ubuntu on a different 
>> hard drive - even with the new kernel.
>>
>> I'll do as you suggest; put the original Ubuntu drive back and see what 
>> happens when I use the older kernel.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Keith
>>
>>     
>
> I'm curious as to why the system boots fine without the XP drive 
> connected if the drive itself is bad. If the Ubuntu drive is flaky, I 
> should think it would be flaky no matter what else is connected to it.
>
> Hmm, how do you have your IDE drives setup?  Are the Master and slave, 
> or 'Cable Select'?  I'm wondering if the Ubuntu drive is set to cable 
> select and it's getting screwy when the kernel loads somehow.
>
> Personally, I ALWAYS manually set my IDE drives up. I never use Cable 
> Select in any way.
>
>
>   
    Excellent thought Mark. A bad HD setup when you have 2 of them can 
sure cause his problems.

Karl



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