Installation Questions 4281

Whan you ask a question, try to be concise. Many people will be reluctant to read a long paragraph and distill the relevant information from it. Don't bother to tell what you have read somewhere.

You start by stating that you have a problem with a ram disk, but when I read further I get the impression that you have a problem with a newly bought hard disk. Am I correct?

- Are you speaking of an initrd (initial ram disk) in the boot process? - Why do you need the ram disk, how did you create it, what does it do? - Can you boot the computer without the ram disk? - What do you mean when you say 'turn on the hard disk'?

Perhaps you use a wrong or faulty driver for the hard disk. I buttume that your operating system is on another hard disk that you did not mention. Can you boot it when the new hard disk is attached? If not, maybe there is a hardware problem (jumpers etc.). If you can boot the operating system from the original disk, do you experience a crash-hand when you try to access the new disk? That would point towards a software problem.

You see, I am guessing. Try to tell us how your system is set up.

Does the kernel recognize the card? Output from lspci? Is it a problem of the kernel or of Xwindows?

Yours, Laurenz Albe