James Harper wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: luv-main-bounces@luv.asn.au [mailto:luv-main-bounces@luv.asn.au] On Behalf Of Lindsay Sprinter Sent: Tuesday, 26 February 2013 12:10 PM To: luv-main@luv.asn.au Subject: Booting problem
Just wondering if anyone has any ideas on a problem thats just appeared.
One of my systems here ocasionally does not startup correctly. The system is running Debian testing from around 3 or 4 monts ago. The Motherboard an AUS P6X58D E Premium, drive layout is 1st drive an WD 160G around 6 years old, 2nd an OCZ Vertex 4 128g SSD, the final drive an WD Caviar Black 1Tb. The system dual boots with WIndow XP, windows C drive and the Linux root drive both being on the 1st disk.
What happens in on startup the bios displays an id screen then displays the mount of memory, then scans the USB ports for a drive, final scans the SATA ports and then boots. When it fails it stops when it should be displaying the amount of memory.
So it seems more like a hard-ware issue; rather than a failure of BIOS to find a bootable drive; or a corrupted bootable drive ? Are you sure it's not just corrupted memory ? regards Rohan McLeod