Re: [Sheflug] Suggestions for Linux on an old Sony Vaio

["Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sheflug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:sheflug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Warburton
> Sent: 09 August 2007 18:26
> To: sheflug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Suggestions for Linux on an old Sony Vaio
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 06:51 -0400, Morris, David (Allvac, UK) wrote:
> > I've got an old Sony Vaio PCGA-R500 laptop (from memory - it's at 
> > home, I'm not). It doesn't have an optical drive, so to get 
> Linux on 
> > it, I've installed it from another laptop that does have an optical 
> > drive. It boots up (GRUB), but during the load, I see a message 
> > similar to "waiting for hda1 to come up" and "waiting for 
> hda2 to come up".
> > Eventually, both these time out and I'm dumped in a very restrictive
> > (GRUB?) shell. I can't ls or anything like that.
> > 
> > Can anyone suggest what I could do to get this box up and running?
> 
> If the problem is with 'hda1' or 'hda2' then that would 
> suggest that the problem is happening after Linux has loaded 
> (GRUB calls drives/partitions (hd0,0) and (hd0,1), Linux 
> calls then hda1 and hda2). 

[snip]

Thanks for the reply, Chris. I'll try the 'original laptop' approach
first. I've also got a laptop USB HD caddy which might work.



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