hard drive install leads to agravation
Forum: HD Install
Topic: hard drive install leads to agravation
started by: jason2005
Posted by jason2005 on April 22 2005,01:18
hard drive installs are making me insane?i tried a 6gig notebook drive i have which i know works fine in windows. and i get segmentation fault !
i tried a dekstop 3 gig drive and i get a read error on boot?
its like i cannot win with DSL ?
the bootable cd works but i'd like to get this working with a hard drive?
Is it possible im doing something wrong?
ive followed instructions on this site for the install
cfdisk to partition the drive
then dsl-hdinstall
then install lilo and i reboot?
maybe im missing something?
tried just recently to install onto a new computer system which had fedora core 3 on it and it resulted in a vs kernel panic error after the install?
Posted by skaos on April 22 2005,09:23
Could it be a bad CD burn? Did you check the md5 sum, and which speed did you burn it with? - I seem to remember that some people have reported that burning it at a low speed will help.
Posted by AwPhuch on April 22 2005,16:58
Get < Ultimate Boot CD > and use the Darik's Boot and Nuke, wipe the drive with all 0's, its always best to start completely fresh harddrive, no data, no partitions, no nothing..just 0'sBrian
AwPhuch
Posted by jason2005 on April 23 2005,02:35
wow cool CD i wish i knew about this awhile back.anyway yes i will reburn the cd just in case and i will use ultimate cd for wiping out the drive.
Posted by jason2005 on April 26 2005,03:21
drive had bad sectors on it.also changed out to 256mb memory
Posted by hypnoz on April 26 2005,22:21
| Quote (jason2005 @ April 21 2005,21:18) |
| hard drive installs are making me insane? i tried a 6gig notebook drive i have which i know works fine in windows. and i get segmentation fault ! i tried a dekstop 3 gig drive and i get a read error on boot? its like i cannot win with DSL ? the bootable cd works but i'd like to get this working with a hard drive? Is it possible im doing something wrong? ive followed instructions on this site for the install cfdisk to partition the drive then dsl-hdinstall then install lilo and i reboot? maybe im missing something? tried just recently to install onto a new computer system which had fedora core 3 on it and it resulted in a vs kernel panic error after the install? |
I ve had also problems with HD install..
It seems like the bootloader is the problem in my case.
When I get this ... extremely positive message>
99 99 99 99 99 9 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99
99 99 99 99 99 9 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 9999 99 99 99 99 9 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 then nothing.
But I m not going to give up. Install and repeat.
....................................................................
ASUS TX/97-X Socket7
AMD K6 3Dnow 450Mhz running 499mhz AirCooled55Celsius
mem. 96Mb. no case
CD BOOT works fine..
hypnoz / finland
Posted by dmizzel on April 30 2005,01:24
The Ultimate Boot Cd does look really cool, however you don't need the cd to wipe out your harddrive. Boot up DSL from cd then try this from the command line:#sudo shred -z -v /dev/hda
This will overwrite /dev/hda 25 times then leave nothing but zeros
or add -n1 and it will overwrite only 1 time (a lot faster), eg:#sudo shred -z -n1 -v /dev/hda