[SWLUG] boot-up screen

[David Scourfield]

A friend of mine had a similar problem when he installed a new HDD.  
When trying to install a Linux OS, he couldn't get it to detect the 
HDD.  We checked the BIOS and found that it, too, didn't recognise the 
new drive (I think we checked if the hdd was present in the boot device 
order config screen and it wasn't).

Turns out the issue was his MB was (relatively) old and only supported 
SATA-150 and his HDD was SATA-300.  He investigated and found that 
although SATA-300 is supposed to be backwards-compatible, his particular 
HDD model didn't detect the connection and automatically downgrade to 
the older version.  The last I heard from him is that there's some sort 
of utility program downloadable from the HDD manufacturer that will 
alter the HDD's firmware settings so it'll use SATA-150 instead, but to 
use it he needed to connect the drive to a Windows machine with a spare 
SATA-300 slot.  I haven't heard from him for a while, so no idea whether 
he resolved it, or not.

Could this be the issue?

Regards,

Dai


Hen Glowr wrote:
> I have been having a problem with my spare computer for sometime now. 
> I have installed a new hard-drive, checked and re-checked that all 
> connections are secure i have failed at every attempt to install a 
> Linux OS onto the hard-drive, although i can run a "Live CD".
>
> So in an attempt to resolve this problem i entered the BIOS and enabled
> "Boot-Time Diagnostic Screen", option. Now when i boot up the computer 
> a lot of new data appears on the screen but it is so fast that it is 
> imposible for me to read it. So does anyone know of a way that will 
> enable me to read all the data on the boot-up screen and maybe help me 
> get the computer up and running once again. Thanks all. Colin
>
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