OS Error on Boot

[Wade Smart]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:16 PM, NoOp<glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 07/08/2009 06:22 PM, Wade Smart wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Wade Smart<wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 20090708 1939 GMT-5
>>>
>>> I need a bit more help.
>>>
>>> /sdb1 /boot
>>> /sdb3 /
>>> /sdb2 - unused
>>> /sdb6 / home 48gb
>>> /sdb5 /swap
>>>
>>> /sda1 /media/disk -backup drive
>>> /sda3 extended
>>> /sda5 /swap
>>>
>>> So, my main drive, a 200gb Maxtor is the one that is apparently had it.
>>>
>>> I pulled the dvd drive and put in another hd to backup my /home to.
>>> Now the system wont boot. I checked the bios for the ide sequence and
>>> only one drive, the maxtor shows up. So I checked the cables, the
>>> power, still nothing. I put back in the dvd drive and now my /sda1
>>> drive is showing as well as my dvd player.  I thought it was the
>>> cables but... apparently that drive has to be there. Why?
>
> If bios isn't seeing both drives then you have a cable and/or jumper issue.
>
>>>
>>> Wade
>>>
>>
>> 20090708 2015 GMT-5
>>
>> I just installed a 20gb drive (as its what I have right here). I
>> installed the Live CD so I could see whats on this drive. First off,
>> when I do almost anything I get an error saying nautlius has died and
>> there is not enough memory. System Monitor says Im using 191mb of 2gb
>> of ram, using 0bytes of 2.1gb swap. CPU is 6%.
>>
>
> Do you mean you booted to the liveCD, or actually did an install from
> the liveCD? Is bios showing all 2GB of memory?
>
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20090709 0622 GMT-5

The PC only sees the other drive when the cd/dvd player is installed.
I wondered about the cable so I got another one out and tried it with
the same results. The maxtor drive is set as master and the second hd
as slave. The dvd is second master, which is what I set the third
drive to.

Ill try that command just listed in the other post.

Wade