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Matt Domsch wrote: > Then BIOS says you've got two more disks. > Both disks 82 and 83 look remarkably small (20808 sectors each, > ~10MB). And I would bet there's no media present, as there's no > mbr_signature field given... So BIOS says there's a disk there, but > there really isn't. Which could cause the kind of timeout you're > seeing. To what are these attached? It's the BIOS for this > controller that's probably what's lying. Some Dell notebooks do this, IIRC. Try removing the HD from a Latitude CPi or CPiA and then booting from a floppy distro like tomsrtbt (from www.toms.net). It's been a while but that 20808 number looks awfully familiar... --Chuck Ebbert 09-Oct-04 00:30:52 Current book: Stephen King: The Waste Lands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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