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On Saturday 17 January 2004 21:42, Melvin Backus wrote: > At 09:34 AM 1/17/2004, Andreas Mueller wrote: > >On Thursday 15 January 2004 05:30, Melvin Backus wrote: > > > Most likely suspect would be the drive configuration in the BIOS. Most > > > newer machines can be set to do auto detection, but after they come up > > > you can normally check to see what the reported type/configuration is. > > > I suspect that the failing machine is either not doing the auto > > > recognition or is for some reason recognizing the drive with a > > > different geometry, etc. That effectively means there's nothing valid > > > on it since the order of reading the data off is different from when it > > > was written. A good clue as to whether or not this is happening is the > > > reported size of the drive in the BIOS boot up screen. You can > > > probably also override the auto detection logic and manually configure > > > the drive if you know what the parameters were set to in the machine > > > where you wrote the disk. > > > >I didn't try to copy it directly on this machine, so the geometry > > translation could be a problem. Thanks for the hint. > > > >Andreas > > Your welcome. Let us know if that cures the issue. I've had cases in the > past where that would cause systems to fail even after boot time because > the geometry was close enough to get the OS loaded. Drove me nuts until I > found it. You don't usually forget those. Copying directly on the machine didn't work, same problem (read error). I had some hope when I got this machine booting from CD (pb25). I configured it to use two 3COM 3c905 as LAN and OPT1 (DMZ) interfaces, and an Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA as WAN interface. I use an ADSL connection, the modem is plugged into the WAN interface, but I can't ping my modem (it says no route to host, but "route get <modem-ip>" shows the right interface). The kernel boot messages said that the card has a programmed IRQ of 0, and that IRQ=7 will be used. Maybe this is the problem? Furthermore, the MAC address of the board isn't detected properly, ifconfig says "ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff". Andreas |