linkazors
2008-02-21, 11:23 PM CST
OK this isn't technically a fedora problem, but it's most definatly a hardware problem.
Here's the story.
I had a duel boot system. xp and fedora 5. THe problem started out with windows randomly crashing and not booting again (hainging while loading mup.sys). I reinstalled windows and was just fine for a couple weeks. THen the exact thing all over again. Thhis time windows wouldn't reinstall, but kept giving me errors when formatting the hard drive. It also somehow corrupted linux so I had to reinstall that also.
I reinstalled linux and preceded several times to wipe the hd with fdisk or dd, and attempt reinstall again. Fedora would only sometimes install correctly, and windows would never install. Sometimes (either OS) would not be able to detect the hard drive. Sometimes it wouldn't be able to format it. Sometimes it wouldn't be able to copy the instalation files to the hard drive.
Before anyone asks, yes i'm sure everything is plugged in, and yes i'm sure the drives were completely blank.
Here's the story.
I had a duel boot system. xp and fedora 5. THe problem started out with windows randomly crashing and not booting again (hainging while loading mup.sys). I reinstalled windows and was just fine for a couple weeks. THen the exact thing all over again. Thhis time windows wouldn't reinstall, but kept giving me errors when formatting the hard drive. It also somehow corrupted linux so I had to reinstall that also.
I reinstalled linux and preceded several times to wipe the hd with fdisk or dd, and attempt reinstall again. Fedora would only sometimes install correctly, and windows would never install. Sometimes (either OS) would not be able to detect the hard drive. Sometimes it wouldn't be able to format it. Sometimes it wouldn't be able to copy the instalation files to the hard drive.
Before anyone asks, yes i'm sure everything is plugged in, and yes i'm sure the drives were completely blank.