Hi all,

I've changed my motherboard to a Foxconn K7S741GXMG-6L (http://www.foxconnchannel.com/Product/m ... -us0000129) and I get a "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK ...". I wasn't 100% it would work but thought I might get a bit further!

I've got a pretty standard setup using auto install to a Maxtor 120gb pata drive which the spare space is lvm'd with another pata. I've read alot and tried chrooting and running lilo but this makes no difference (complains about /proc/partitions but I think this is normal?) I've flashed the bios but still no progress. I know knoppmyth works with the motherboard as I installed it on an old small drive just as a check before pulling my other machine apart.

Any suggestions would be appreciated as I really don't want to lose my setup and recordings.

Thanks

J

_________________
Foxconn K7S741GXMG-6L
Athlon XP 1700+
THERMALTAKE SLK-900-A Heatsink
768MB RAM
120GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9
300GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9
2 * AverTV DVB-T 771
1 * WinTV-PVR-150 MCE l.p
AUDIGY 2 ZS PLATINUM PRO
XFX Geforce MX4000 64MB AGP8X

Check you BIOS settings...specificly drive boot order. If that does not produce the issue, then you can use your install CD as a rescue CD. Instead of installing you can mount your system partition and hunt down the problem.

_________________
Mike
My Hardware Profile

Hi Mike

Yes the bios lists hdd 0-4, I've been through and set all combinations with n luck. I have got the cd and successfully booted but am slightly stuck as to what to check for. Any suggestions?

Thanks

J

_________________
Foxconn K7S741GXMG-6L
Athlon XP 1700+
THERMALTAKE SLK-900-A Heatsink
768MB RAM
120GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9
300GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9
2 * AverTV DVB-T 771
1 * WinTV-PVR-150 MCE l.p
AUDIGY 2 ZS PLATINUM PRO
XFX Geforce MX4000 64MB AGP8X

Check your cables. I bet you have the HDD cable on backwards or somehow screwy. If they are the same drives you had before and you didn't change either the cabling or the jumpers, then I'm guessing the cable is on upside down on the MB.

If not, do you have a spare HD you can plug in and try to format? It will verify that the HD controller is working.

Do you have a recent backup? You could just "upgrade" to the same version of KM...

_________________
Mike
My Hardware Profile

When I ran the knoppmyth cd and exitted and chrooted in an attempt to repair lilo I could see the drive so that rules out the cable. It really seems to be the bootability of the drive.

I have a backup from a little while ago, I stupidly didn't take one before pulling it apart. Is it possible to scan the recorded programs to add the ones that wouldn't be in the database for all recordings made since the backup?

It does look like the best way is going to be putting the drives back in the old pc, backing up and auto upgrading the on the new motherboard. I was trying to avoid pulling it apart again

_________________
Foxconn K7S741GXMG-6L
Athlon XP 1700+
THERMALTAKE SLK-900-A Heatsink
768MB RAM
120GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9
300GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9
2 * AverTV DVB-T 771
1 * WinTV-PVR-150 MCE l.p
AUDIGY 2 ZS PLATINUM PRO
XFX Geforce MX4000 64MB AGP8X

How old was the motherboard you replaced? Is there any chance it had LBA settings different than the new one?

Just a thought, but I have built a couple of systems where the BIOS was very finicky about the position the boot drive was connected on the cable.

The drive would show as primary Master in the Bios and would even act like it was booting but could never get beyond the loading of the First Contiguous Sectors on the drive.

I have seen this mostly in PATA drives and using both Cable Select and Master jumper settings.

Check the Manual sometimes they give you a clue or change the position on the cable that the drive is attached to and then rerun the auto config for the drive in Bios...

Good luck!

See this quick cheat sheet on IDE setup: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7577&postorder=asc&start=18

If you messed with the drives at all, or the jumpers or the position of the cable, it could have switched the master and the slave, you get total confusion which one is the boot HD.



Yes. If you can access the recordings, copy them over to the recordings directory (/myth/tv for the last few releases). When ready, you can run myth.rebuilddatabase.pl --default.

You'll have to re-enter titles, subtitles, and descriptions, but the rest should be defaulting based on the file name.

You might be able to copy the mysql database tables individually to another machine with mysql, open it, and list out the recordid, title, subtitle, and descriptions to a file for copy & paste too.

Thank you

To be honest I didn't know what LBA was until you suggested it.
The bios was set to auto but after changing the setting to specify to LBA it worked fine.

Also thanks to everyone else for the quick responses and handy to know about the rebuild database option.

_________________
Foxconn K7S741GXMG-6L
Athlon XP 1700+
THERMALTAKE SLK-900-A Heatsink
768MB RAM
120GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9
300GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9
2 * AverTV DVB-T 771
1 * WinTV-PVR-150 MCE l.p
AUDIGY 2 ZS PLATINUM PRO
XFX Geforce MX4000 64MB AGP8X