Originally Posted by
piglete2000
Hi,
I have been trying to install the Ajax system on a milling machine for the first time and have run into a problem with the "solid state hard drive". The computer recognizes it correctly in the bios set-up, but when it tries to boot from it it gives the following error: GRUB hard disk failure. I managed to read the flashcard directly using a USB reader and Redhat linux. So I think that the files are intact. When I install the "solid state hard drive" and try to boot with Redhat Linux, the loader gets stuck checking the partitioning on the "solid state hard drive". Has anyone encountered this problem before? Could the IDE flashdisk adaptor be bad or incompatable with my computer?
I also tried to download the linux installation CD and install CNC linux directly on the hard drive. Unfortunately, when I burn the CD from the files Ajax provides, it doesn't wind up bootable. I'm not sure how to make a bootable linux CD, but I'm convinced that there are more steps to it than those described on Ajax's user support site. Is there a trick to it?
-Kristen
When you "burn the CD from the files", what are you actually doing? On what OS? On linux, you could use mkisofs to generate the file system, then cdrecord to write it to disk.
Ken
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