[nzlug] Debian Installation Woes

[Nevyn]

On 3/9/07, Michael Adams <linux_mike at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:41:33 +1300
> Nevyn wrote:
>
> >
> > Strange error. I switched over to the logging screen and found no
> > problems there. In my desperation I decided to just unplug all the
> > hard drives except the one that I want to install Linux on. And sure
> > enough, it installed just fine. Hopefully when I plug all the other
> > harddrives back in it'll work like a working thing. About to try it in
> > a few minutes...
> >
>
> Let us know.
>
> --
> Michael

Finally ready to cry. I did the installation (Yes I had done it
previously but only far enough to know if it worked - I had used
defaults on everything and it would be quicker just to do the
installation again rather than trying to fix everything by hand) and
this time when I rebooted the bios threw me a curve ball.

Now everytime I boot up it throws up an error. Something along the
lines of "No master ide h.d.d. found. Press F1 to continue". This had
me scratching my head so I decided to try changing hard drives. Same
error again. Checked the jumpers on the hard drives and the cdrom
drive, tried a different cdrom drive. No joy, the error still comes
up.

This is starting to sound like a bigger problem than I originally thought.