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Re: [PLUG] master vs slave?
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new machines (well mine does this and it is about 3 weeks old) don't
care which one (master/slave) the boot drive is. However, they do
usually care is there is only one drive on the connection and it is
labeled slave. Sometimes you need to tell a drive if it is the only one
(Western Digitals seem to need this), some will auto sense if there is a
slave or not (IBM drives tend to do this).
I had that lilo thing happen to me once too. Had to reformat the
drive. However, (in theory at least) you should be able to put that
drive in another computer and install the boot loader to that drive
(Grub asks for a drive to install to, I think lilo does too). This
would save your install and any data you might have on it.
-brad
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 15:36, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> Thanks, that's helpful to know.
>
> I did find a (not clearly self-consistent) bit of instruction on the
> hard drive, and now it's a master. Still won't boot. But thanks for
> helping clear up the master/slave bit. I'm reinstalling debian as I
> write, since I didn't bother to make a boot floppy...
>
> -Jeff
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:23:58PM -0600, imayes@verizon.net wrote:
> > I think if it is the only drive on the controller, it has to either
> > be a master with a slave or set up as an "only drive" (master with
> > no slave). This usually depends on the drive. Try reading the
> > information on the drive itself, or look it up on the manufaxturer's
> > website.
> >
> > Iman
> >
> > >
> > > From: Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>
> > > Date: 2002/11/15 Fri PM 12:55:27 CST
> > > To: PLUG <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> > > Subject: [PLUG] master vs slave?
> > >
> > > I'm installing debian on a new machine, and I notice that my hard
> > > drive is slave on the first controller. Does this matter? I've read a
> > > bunch about this on the net, but fail to really understand why a disk
> > > should be one or another. Maybe this is because it doesn't matter.
> > >
> > > At the moment, my new machine is doing the "01 01 01 01"
> > > thing. Drat. Lilo's not happy in any case. I wonder if it's because
> > > the hd is slave...
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jeff
> > >
> > > Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
> > >
> > >
>
>
>
> --
> Jeff
>
> Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
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