[mythtv-users] Re: OT:Pundit-R MythTV first boot

[Mark Knecht]

All fixed. Actually was a bad hard drive, or a driv ethe system
couldn't handle. Gentoo now installed and building MythTV.

cheers,
Mark

On 6/4/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    First - sorry to any Gentoo-Users for a bit of a cross post.
> 
>    I'm setting up a new mythfrontend only machine. I've tried twice
> now to do a Gentoo install on a new Pundit-R where the hard drive is
> an older 13GB EIDE drive set as the EIDE master. The drive is seen by
> BIOS. The Gentoo install goes absolutely fine but when I try to
> reboot, the system doesn't boot immediately from either the CDRW/DVD
> or the hard drive. Additionally I get a BIOS message about the hard
> saying:
> 
> Primary Master Hard Disk Error
> Press F1 to resume
> 
> Hitting F1 gives me another opportunity to boot at which time the
> machine will boot from the CDRW/DVD but still not from the hard drive.
> 
>    Has anyone using a Pundit-R run into this before? Are there any
> BIOS settings that I should be looking at to get this groovy looking
> little box to boot? Any and all ideas appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
>