OS Error on Boot

[Wade Smart]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Fred Roller<froller at tnclimited.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 16:47 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> > I have tried to get livecd to work now for two days trying all sorts
>> > of things and nothing is working. Well, I say nothing but the fact
>> is
>> > - My computer starts up, boots live cd, wont load the desktop
>> > background, cant open nautlius, everything else acts squirrelly ---
>> > so, Im ordering me a new Shuttle. And just before I was to order -
>> > something popped into my head: All the drives are ATA and Shuttle is
>> > SATA. Ah - had to laugh.
>> >
>> > Wade
>> >
>>
>> Does that mean you've resolved the issue?
>
> It works in my shuttle.  Did out of the box at 8.10 and upgrade.  I see
> that you can either try back one distro or, for trouble shooting
> disconnect all hard drives and remove RAM (if available get a known good
> stick of RAM).  Start with just an optical drive and a single stick of
> RAM.  Boot to LiveCD.  Add Hardware until failure.  Tedious but
> effective.  If you are experiencing hardware failure this should
> pinpoint it.
>
> --
> Fred R.

If I cant get this pc fixed them Im building another Shuttle. Quad
core Four maybe :D

An update: Like Fred said, tedious. But, after some troubles and
confusion with my hardware and my hard drive and partitioning, I
finally got an older Quantum Fireball 30gb drive installed with 9.04.
CPU is running 6 t 7% and ram is 196mb of 2gb. So, thats good.

Im working on getting data from one of the two other drives.

Wade