Re: newbie question of the day; "no disks found"

From: WD Baseley (wbaseley_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 05/22/04 

Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 08:42:14 -0400

On Sat, 22 May 2004 04:57:02 +0000 (UTC), bob prohaska
<bp@imln8.berkeley.edu> stated:

>WD Baseley <wbaseley@mindspring.com> wrote:
>> fdisk), I've tried innumerable BIOS tweaks, I've tried removing items
>> from the IDE bus. Nothing I've done gets me past that error message.
>
>This sounds odd. The only things on the IDE bus are usually disks,
>which you'd have no incentive to remove.....might there be some
>confusion between IDE and ISA?

No confusion -- at least not on this count ;-) The system board has two
IDE connectors, each of which can handle two devices. The first one, on
the PCI bus, has two hard drives connected to it; a creaky old Maxtor
91366U4 6GB drive, and an even more ancient Western Digital WDC AC2700H
750MB drive. The second IDE connector is on the ISA bus and controls a
Hitachi CDR-8435 CD-ROM drive and 100MB ATAPI Zip drive.

I thought perhaps the Zip Drive was tossing a wrench into the works and
so I removed it, with no change in behavior. I also tried
reconfiguring the system with only one hard drive on the PCI IDE bus,
again with no change in behavior.

It seems odd to me that the sysinstal process can boot from either the
floppy drive or the CD-ROM drive, and yet when I get further along in
the process I get "no disks found". In the interests of figuring out
the problem I'd like to capture the messages that scroll up the screen
during the loading of the kernel, is there a way to print them out or
direct them to a file?

Regards,
WD Baseley

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