Autofac
Group: Members
Posts: 2
Joined: July 2005 |
 |
Posted: July 20 2005,05:15 |
 |
Ok, here's the story and it's a damn long one.
I have an older 233 lying around, I knew it was still operational, however prior to reformat of the harddrives it would only go to the very first startup screen and go no further.
Tonight, because I was looking to make it a linux box, running of course, Damnsmalllinux, I reformatted both harddrives (two 1gb). I put them back into the larger machine and things seemed to be going okay.
I downloaded damnsmalllinux, put it to cd, booted it to this machine as a test, worked great, so I went back to try it on the 233- here is where things get wonky.
I knew I would have to set the bios correctly, so that it boots from the cdrom (which is a cdrw- not that it really matters). I go in, and the first thing I notice is that the bios are older and different from other ones I've used, nothing unusual, so I went into the actual bios settings.
The only option I could change which would allow me to alter what it booted from was something called "Bootsequence". In this I was able to choose from a few different options, all of them had at least 2 or three things per line (i.e one option was boot from: SCSI, A, C; SCSI, C, A; C ONLY; LS/ZIP, C; CDROM, A, C; A, E, CDROM etc etc) Utilizing a number of different drive letters. So I tried first CDROM, with no luck, it would just get to "Verifying DMI pool data" and stop cold.
I figured maybe this was an issue with not having anything on the drives, or the computer is too old to recognize cd booting or something. So I decided to make a win98 boot disk, on floppy, which I did and attempted- still only got to Verifying DMI pool data.
FINALLY I realized, after reading the same screen that it wasn't even recognizing either of the harddrives. I am sure they worked, as I had put them into an external case and reformatted from this machine, so it wasn't a question of faulty harddrives.
I am now confused on just what to do, I've tried a bunch of different ribbon cables, tried switching the bios back to booting from A for the boot disk, even tried taking an untouched harddrive WITH 98 on it and plugging it in, but it STILL wouldn't recognize it as actually being there, let alone the master drive.
Any help on this is GREATLY appreciated.
|
.
DSL Market ,
Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic
