[oclug] Filesystem not found

[dman at lanhouse.ca]

Maybe you could try to unplug the HDs and leave only one IDE optical drive 
with the boot CD in it.  If you still get the filesystem error, maybe the 
RAM is bad (check it with memtest86) http://www.memtest86.com/

Good luck,

Dennis

On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Andy Civil wrote:

> Charles MacDonald wrote:
>> Andy Civil wrote:
>> 
>>> Background: a replacement motherboard in an old 
>>> system. DDR RAM, two IDE
>>> DVD burners on the lone IDE port, two 250Gb IDE 
>>> HDD's on a PCI RAID card
>>> (because I'm now out of IDE ports!). 
>> 
>> Could it be the booting system does not recognise 
>> the RAID card, or
>> thinks the drives are in a raid config when they 
>> are not? (or thinks
>> they are not when they are?)
>
> Perhaps, but I was hoping that it would at least boot 
> without needing the hard disks. I admit that it's 
> pointless if I can't mount the disks to edit them, 
> but I was going to cross that bridge when I'd at 
> least made it boot up...
>
> Thanks
>